shide
Pronunciations
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/ʃaɪd/
Noun
A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
- Examples
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For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,
More examples (1)
And [although] by the true intente of the said Statue everie Bende of Faggot should be Three Foote, […] the said evill disposed people doe [make] the saide Bendes or Faggots stickes much shorter, […] And that everie Tall Shide marked Two, beinge rounde bodied, shall conteine in compasse Three and twentie Inches of Assise aboute, […]
A quantity of pollard trees to make 1200 shides of cleft wood, computed to contain half a foot of wood or timber in each.
Word forms
shides