SHIVE

A slice, especially of bread.

A sheave.

A beam or plank of split wood.

A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.

A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.

(papermaking) a dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.