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▪ I. shide, n. Obs. exc. dial.|ʃaɪd| Forms: 1–3 scid, 3 sid, 4 szhide, (chide), 4–6 schide, schyde, 5 schyd(d, (schudde, chyde), 5–6 shyde, shyyd, 6 shyd, (shede), 6, 7 shid, 4– shide. [OE. scíd (? neut.) = OFris. skîd, mod.Flem. dial. schijd, OHG. scît neut. (MHG. schît, mod.G. scheit), ON. skíð neut. (Norw. ski: see ski):—OTeut. *skīđo-m, f. root *skī̆đ- to divide: see shed v.] A piece of wood split off from timber, esp. such a piece used in building a fire, a block, billet; a board, plank, beam. As a quantity: Half a cubic foot of timber (see quot. for shide measure in b).
c725Corpus Gloss. 1817 Scindulis: scidum. c825Epinal Gloss. 943. c 875 Erfurt Gloss. 943. c 1050 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 266/33 Incipit de Igne..Scindula, scid. c1300Havelok 917 Ful wel kan ich cleuen shides. 13..K. Alis. 6421 Mouth they haveth gret, and wide, And a tonge as a schyde. c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 170 Les hasteles [glossed the chides, szhides] fetez alumer. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 160 And com to Noe Anon And bad him not lette Swiþe to schapen A schup of schides and Bordes. c1425Wyntoun Orig. Cron. iii. v. 776 A bale fyre off gret schyddys. c1440Promp. Parv. 446/1 Schyyd, or astelle (v.rr. schyd of a astel, schyde wode), teda. 1446Churchw. Acc. Yatton (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 86 To I. Parker vor goyng to Thurbbewyll to helpe hewwe the schudde. Ibid. 88 Vor vyllyng of a chyde. 1470–73in Rec. Andover 16 Paid for caryng a shide xijd. c1512Regul. Northumbld. Househ. (1770) 72 The shedes to be maid of the said Hardwode to be in leinth a Yerde and in thikenes a Spanne. 1533Hen. VIII in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 31 Item, every mornyng at our Woodeyarde, foure tall shyds and twoo fagotts. 1561S. Wythers tr. Calvin's Treat. Relics C ij, And in som places ther are good great shydes [of the Cross]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 56 If the fire-man throw great shides of wood in the mouths of the Furnaces. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 262 Cutting every shid of tall wood four foot long beside the kerf, and the billet three foot four inches. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 241 Shides. The same as Shingles. 1793Jrnls. Ho. Comm. 28 Mar. 516/2 A Quantity of Pollard Trees sufficient to make 1,200 Shides of Cleft Wood, containing Half a Foot each. b. attrib. and Comb., as shide-wood, shide-yard; shide-measure (see quot.); shide-wall, a rampart composed of piles.
1600Hopton Baculum Geod. vi. xxxvii. 213 *Shide measure sheweth how many shides of timber is contained in each foote of length: for..a shide of timber is halfe a foote of timber.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 146/28 Uallum, *scidwealles eorðbyri. c1205Lay. 10354 Þe vfenen he makede scid wal.
c1420Anturs of Arth. xxxix, Schaftis in *shide wode thay shindre in schides.
c1450Godstow Reg. (1911) 422 The which lieth in *shideyerd in Oxenford. ▪ II. † shide, v. Obs. rare. Pa. pple. 4 ischyt. [f. shide n.] trans. To cleave, split.
c1315Shoreham (E.E.T.S.) iv. 178 Þys manere senne nys nauȝt ones, Ac hys ischyt in þry, In þouȝt, in speche, in dede amys. 1513Douglas æneis vi. iii. 48 With wegis schidit gan the birkis sound. |