Words Ending with 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.