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englanti A slice, especially of bread.
1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
puhekieltä A sheave.
A beam or plank of split wood.
A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.
puhekieltä A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
puhekieltä A particle of impurity in finished paper.
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2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 50:
So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.
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2010, w:William Labov|William Labov, http://www.acls.org/publications/audio/labov/default.aspx?id=4462 A Life of Learning
There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.

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shive rimmaa näiden kanssa:

taive, nilkkataive, polvitaive, kyynärtaive, nivustaive, viive, jive, live, toive, voitontoive

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