jan 1, 1700 - shive

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A slice. <i>c</i>.1690 <i>take A shife of wheate bread & Toaste it well</i>, Conistone (RW7). In an undated recipe, probably from the early eighteenth century is: <i>Take two young rabbets ...boil them in milk ... until tender ... pull the meat in shives </i>(GWK39). It could be used of detached pieces of wood or metal: 1669 <i>received two shillings for the said iron ... bid this informant ... throw the greater peeces into a shive tubbe that stoode by</i>, Rotherham (QS1/9/2).

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