shive
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shive
(ʃaɪv)n
1. (Brewing) a flat cork or bung for wide-mouthed bottles
2. an archaic word for slice
[C13: from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schīve; see sheave1]
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Shive, Shove
fragments or splinters, collectively; a cluster of splinters of raw fibres in papermaking, 1483.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.