Sheaved

He saw a vendor selling sugarcane from an open-sided van, mangoes in wooden crates and tall cane sheaved with twine. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

It's sheaved in a soft tissue layer that has the venom and bacteria in it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

BILL FRIST, (R) MAJORITY LEADER: The sort (ph) of the filibuster has been sheaved because we are placing principle before politics and results before rhetoric. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ahab must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the mainmast head, he received the two ends of the downwardreeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared, pin for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts, travelling through a single-sheaved block. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Autumn would mean tall, dry grasses, ready to be scythed and sheaved and draped into a roof for the lodge. ❋ King, J. Robert (1999)

They consist of eight separate machines, which work in succession, so as to begin and finish off a two-sheaved block four inches in length. ❋ Various (N/A)

On steamers, of course, we have no yards, and so little items like spanners and wrenches and three-sheaved blocks fall from aloft. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Noyes saw him leap to one side, even as he saw a heavy, triple-sheaved block bound on the steel deck beside him. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Not only did Froude omit more than half the Letters which Carlyle had collected, but he substituted, with disastrous consequences, for that portion of Mrs. Carlyle's Journal, sheaved by ❋ Unknown (1893)

There is a low granite bench or sill round the base of the beautiful sheaved columns; a broken, disused organ-loft of coloured mediæval thorn carving; and under two shapely little arches lie ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

The sheaved blocks used for the running rigging consisted of the shell, the sheaves, which revolved within the shell, and the pins which fastened them together. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)

I had seen the sheaved corn carrying in the golden fields as I came down to the river; and the rosy farmer, watching his labouring men in the saddle on his cob, had told me how he had reaped his two hundred and sixty acres of long-strawed corn last week, and how a better week's work he had never done in all his days. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Ahab must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the mainmast head, he received the two ends of the downwardreeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Ahab must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the main-mast head, he received the two ends of the downward-reeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Last night was painful. That [burrito] I ate twisted my stomach into [knots] and forced me to [sheave] all morning. ❋ ChardTortilla (2017)

[Come on man], don't sheave, [there's only one] [lap] to go. ❋ Curt R. (2008)

I was [sitting on] the toilet for half [an hour] with the [dry sheaves] this morning. ❋ DefNotRight (2016)

Wow, [after the] [third girl] I had to [re-sheave]. ❋ Scawt1984 (2016)

My [stomach] is [cramping] and I've had dry sheaves [all day]. ❋ DefNotRight (2016)

[I pooped] 3 times [this morning] and had dry sheaves for [an hour]. ❋ DefNotRight (2016)