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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.
edit:
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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