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What does sheave mean? Is sheave a Scrabble word?

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Is sheave a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sheave is a Scrabble US word. The word sheave is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

S1H4E1A1V4E1

Is sheave a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sheave is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

S1H4E1A1V4E1

Is sheave a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word sheave is a Words With Friends word. The word sheave is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1H3E1A1V5E1

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6-letter words (3 found)

HEAVES,HEVEAS,SHEAVE,

5-letter words (6 found)

EAVES,HAVES,HEAVE,HEVEA,SHAVE,SHEVA,

4-letter words (11 found)

AVES,EASE,EAVE,EVES,HAES,HAVE,SAVE,SHEA,VAES,VASE,VEES,

3-letter words (19 found)

AHS,ASH,AVE,EAS,EHS,EVE,HAE,HAS,HES,SAE,SAV,SEA,SEE,SEV,SHA,SHE,VAE,VAS,VEE,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AH,AS,EA,EE,EH,ES,HA,HE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 50 words from sheave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sheave

sheave

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

Etymology 1

Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.

Noun

sheave (plural sheaves)

  1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
  2. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
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Etymology 2

See sheaf.

Verb

sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)

  1. To gather and bind into a sheaf.
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
      From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
      Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
      Their country's harvest.
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See also
  • pulley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • “sheave”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

  • heaves, heveas, shavee

Source: wiktionary.org