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clevis|ˈklɛvɪs|
So 6– ; also 7 cleuise, clevisse, clevies; clivies, 7–8 clives, 9 clivvis; 8 clevvy, 9 clevy.
[Of uncertain form and origin: in most of the quotations treated as a singular (with pl., in 9 clevises); but in some as plural, with clevy, clevvy as its sing. It might be an OE. *clyfes:—kluƀisî (like yfes eaves), f. weak stem of kleuƀ-, cléof to cleave, the thing being perhaps orig. a cloven or forked piece. Cf. Ger. klobe.]
A U-shaped piece of iron, with a pin or bolt passing through holes in the two ends, whereby it can be bolted on to the end of a beam or the like, so as to form a loop to which tackle may be attached. The simple shape is variously modified according to purpose; in Mining it becomes a hook with a pin or bolt (cf. clip-hook: clip1 3). a. as a means of connecting a plough or cart with the gear of the draught animal.
1592Lanc. & Chesh. Wills III. 39 My best paire of clevis, my best plowe. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman i. i. viii. (1635) 44 This Clevisse is a helpe for the evill making or going of a Plough. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farme 533 If it be Oxen, then there is but the plow cleuise, the teames, the yoakes, and beeles. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652) 213 Your chain that is put upon your plough cock or clevies. 1790W. Marshall Midl. Counties (E.D.S.), Clevvy, a species of draft-iron of a plow. 1828Webster, Clevy, Clevis, an iron..used on the end of a cart-neap to hold the chain of the forward horse or oxen; or a draft iron on a plow. 1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 227 There were a dozen links of the chain, and two huge clevises.
b. in Mining: see quot.
1653E. Manlove Lead Mines 271 (E.D.S.), Corfe, Clivies, Deads, Meers, Groves. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. F j, At the end of the Rope a Knot is made, and thereon the Clives rests. 1802Mawe Min. Derbysh. Gloss., Clevis, an iron at the end of the engine rope, on which the bucket is hung. 1851Tapping Gloss. Derbysh. Min. T. (E.D.S.), Clives, clivies, the iron hoop or swivel at the end of the rope in which the kibble or corfe is suspended. 1876C. Robinson Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clivvis, a spring-hook.
¶ Cf. the following:
1888North. N. & Q. June 29 Candleholders were originally made entirely of wood, the stalk having a cleft, called a ‘clevie’, at the top to hold the fir candle. |