SHIVE
- sliver or fragment; splinter
- thin plug, as of wood or cork, for stopping the bunghole of a cask or the mouth of a bottle
- splinter or fragment of the husk of flax, hemp, etc.
- the ligneous waste product obtained by braking and scutching flax
- a traditional seven-day period of mourning the dead that is observed in Jewish homes often used in the phrase sit shivah
- a thin fragment [n SHIVES]