shive

noun8

1. •
   A slice, especially of bread.

   • 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. — 1980
2. •
   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. — 2011
3. •
   A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
4. •
   A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
5. •
   A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
6. •
   A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
7. •
   A beam or plank of split wood.
8. •
   (no longer used) A sheave.