Sheave
[ʃiːv] or [ʃiv]
Definition
(v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
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Definition
n. the wheel of a pulley over which the rope runs: a sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.—n. Sheave′-hole.
Editor: Sweeney
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sheaves, denotes joyful occasions. Prosperity holds before you a panorama of delightful events, and fields of enterprise and fortunate gain.
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Examples
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The car is connected to wire cables passing over large sheaves at the top of the well room to a counterbalancing bucket. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this the hoisting cables from which the car is suspended have at the other end a counterweight and pass around driving sheaves in place of a drum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It worked perfectly, cutting fifty acres of grain and binding it into sheaves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves, in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Gorham, who perfected a new twine-binder, and added a device by which all the sheaves bound were turned out in uniform size. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first step toward a self-binder was the addition of a foot-board at the back of the reaper, on which a man might stand and fasten the grain into sheaves as it fell. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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