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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shive /ʃʌɪv/

▶noun a broad bung hammered into a hole in the top of a cask when the cask has been filled.

– origin ME (in sense ‘slice (of bread)’, later ‘piece of split wood’): rel. to sheave2.

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