sheave

suomi-englanti sanakirja

sheave englanniksi

  1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.

  2. (quote-journal)

  3. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.

  4. To gather and bind into a sheaf.

  5. Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4

  6. ''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive''
    ''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave''
    ''Their country's harvest.''