Meanings
shide1
plural shides
- dialectalobsoleteA 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.
For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,
1566, Accounts of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury2 more examples
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, […]
1601, An Acte concerninge the Assise of Fewell (Chapter XIV, 43* Eliz. c. 14,15.), in The Statutes of the Realm ... From Original Records (1819), page 982A quantity of pollard trees to make 1200 shides of cleft wood, computed to contain half a foot of wood or timber in each.
1791, “Parl. Commission on Royal Forests”, in Reports, published 1863, VI., page 339
Shide2
- A southern suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
Origin
shide · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*skeyt-
- Proto-Germanic*skīdą“log, plank, tile”
- Proto-West Germanic*skīd
- Old Englishsċīd“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”
- Middle Englishschyd
- Englishshide
From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”). Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”), Swedish skid (“wooden shoe, sole, skate”), Icelandic skíð (“a billet of wood”). Doublet of ski.
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- Old Englishscēad“boundary, division”
- EnglishShide
From Old English scēad (“boundary, division”), referring to the stream that ran through it.
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