shive

A slice, especially of bread.

Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue

In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.

A sheave.

A beam or plank of split wood.

A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.

A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.

A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.

A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

Alternative form of shiv.

So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.