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I can't seem to get a hold of an online BRITISH English Dictionary.
So, I was wondering, are these words included in the British English Oxford Dictionary? :
sheaving
sleaving
I've managed to find those on merriam-webster's and dictionary.com but they are mainly American English sites, so I just need verification.
Thank you!
Jess
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here's a quote from the Times; it doesn't appear to be in current use:
1893 Times 20 May 11/5 Thatching,..fence-building, mowing and sheaving are, we are assured, becoming lost arts.
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sleaving - rare. Now dial.
[f. SLEAVE v. Cf. SLAVING n.]
A slip taken from a tree by splitting or pulling.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. III. 163 Yf thow sette a plaunte or a sleuyng, Putte in a lytel moysty molde amonge. 1839 SIR G. C. LEWIS Gloss. Heref., Sleaving, a twig sleaved off.
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Hey! :o)
I've tried the first one already. Am looking at the second one. I'm glad to be back too. I was away TOO long! Kinda missed the "action"! :o)
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OK, the second didn't have any answers for that. :o(
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So, does that mean sleaving is a real word or has it not been in use for a long time?
I wonder if it would still appear in the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 6th Edition. I think that's the latest one.
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>So, does that mean sleaving is a real word or has it not been in use for a long time?
OED says it is rare and dial. I guess whether this makes it "real" is entirely up to you.
also, it looks like the 1913 Webster's (the dictionary.com source) has a different, but perhaps related, def'n; I didn't look that closely.
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Well, here's what I got from dictionary.com (and surprisingly, NOT from merriam-webster, didn't find anything for that)
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sleaving
Sleave \Sleave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.] To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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and as for sheaving :
sheave1
tr.v. sheaved, sheav·ing, sheaves
To collect and bind into a sheaf.
[From sheaf.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Still, how can I verify it in British English? Hmm.....
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re: sleaving
OED: A slip taken from a tree by splitting or pulling.
Webster's: (this is the 1913 ed. with updated copyright):
To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
coincidence? prolly not
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OK, that makes "sleaving" an "official" word, but what about sheaving?
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sheaving in the brings, sheaving in th..... oops. not quite right... 
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