Definitions for sheave

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Spelling: [sheev]
IPA: /ʃiv/

Sheave is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in sheave (aeehsv).

Definitions for sheave

noun

  1. a pulley for hoisting or hauling, having a grooved rim for retaining a wire rope.
  2. a wheel with a grooved rim, for transmitting force to a cable or belt.

verb (used with object)

  1. to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.

Origin of sheave

First recorded in 1570-80; derivative of sheaf

Examples for sheave

The sheave at the stern was fixed on the end of the screw shaft.

Smiling demurely, even blandly, Lawton rolled his sheave of bacon to and fro upon its kidneys.

The shell is now completed, and the visitor is next shown the different processes in forming the sheave and the pin.

The car, attached to the free ends of the cables, was hauled up as the piston drew the two sheave assemblies apart.

Let the rope be put in round the sheave of this block, and brought back to the block that is fastened at the top of the machine.

The sheave attached to the ship at the bow was slung by chains about 80 feet from the stem.

The traction rope is carried over the sheave at the top, then let fall and passed round a sheave in a block below.

Water, admitted to a horizontal cylinder, displaced a piston and rod to which a sheave was attached.

After the rope leaves the said sheave, it is coiled away at pleasure.

The two parts of the sheave are connected by two cotter bolts.

Word Value for sheave
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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