An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SHEAVE
Etymology 1
Noun
sheave (plural sheaves)
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.
A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Etymology 2
See sheaf.
Verb
sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)
To gather and bind into a sheaf.
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Anagrams
• heaves, heveas, shavee
Source: Wiktionary
Sheave, n. Etym: [Akin to OD. schijve orb, disk, wheel, D. schiff, G. scheibe, Icel. skifa a shaving, slice; cf. Gr. Shift, v., Shive.]
Definition: A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley. Sheave hole, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.
Sheave, v. t. Etym: [See Sheaf of straw.]
Definition: To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect. Ashmole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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