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Sheave
- - A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
Shelve
- verb - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- place on a shelf; "shelve books"
Shelvy
- adjective - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
Shrive
- verb - grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's"
Shrove
- verb - grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's"
Skivvy
- noun - a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
Sleave
- - The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. (b) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
Sleeve
- noun - Rubber or plastic ring lining a hole
- small case into which an object fits
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
Starve
- verb - be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
- deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
- die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for