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sheaving

sheaving is the present participle and gerund of sheave.

Meaning of sheave

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.
    • From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
      Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
      Their country's harvest.Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4

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Questions about sheaving

What is sheaving the present participle and gerund of?
Sheaving is the present participle and gerund of sheave.

Words near sheaving in the dictionary

  1. sheats
  2. sheave
  3. sheaved
  4. sheaveless
  5. sheaves
  6. sheaving
  7. Sheay
  8. Sheb
  9. Sheba
  10. Sheban
  11. shebander

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