shide

See also: shíde, shídé, shìde, shǐde, and Shide

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: shied

Noun

shide (plural shides)

1. (obsolete) A 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.
   • 1566, Accounts of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury:

     For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,

   • 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 982:

     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, […]

   • 1791, “Parl. Commission on Royal Forests”, in Reports, published 1863, VI., page 339:

     A quantity of pollard trees to make 1200 shides of cleft wood, computed to contain half a foot of wood or timber in each.

Further reading

• “shide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Heids, Ihdes, Sidhe, deshi, hides, shied, sidhe

Middle English

Noun

shide

1. Alternative form of schyd