Alternative form of shiv / The scooped out portion at the end of a stave used to make a cask, where the croze will be incised. / A cooper's tool used to make that section.

Alternative form of shiv

plural of chiv

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chiv

present participle of chiv

simple past tense and past participle of chiv

(now rare, historical) Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle. / (obsolete) The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.

(of a man) Honourable, especially to women; gallant. / involving chivalry.

A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. / (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. / (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

(thieves' cant) A knife. / (thieves' cant) A file. / (thieves' cant) A saw.