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sharen.1

Brit. /ʃɛː/, U.S. /ʃɛ(ə)r/
Forms: early Old English scaer, Old English scær, Old English scer, Old English–early Middle English scear, Middle English schar, Middle English scharre, Middle English shaar, Middle English sharre, Middle English sher, Middle English shzar, Middle English ssare, Middle English–1500s schare, Middle English–1500s (1800s English regional) shar, Middle English– share, 1600s sheare, 1600s shere, 1700s sharr.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with (showing e -grade ablaut) Old Frisian sker , skar , Old Saxon sker- (in skersahs razor), (showing o -grade ablaut) Old High German scar (Middle High German schar , German Schar ), (with different stem class) Old Saxon skara (Middle Low German schāre , schār ), Old High German scaro , all in sense ‘ploughshare’ < the same Germanic base as shear v. Compare shear n.1 and share n.2The Germanic cognates show more than one ablaut grade of the base and different types of formation; some details are uncertain and disputed. In Old English usually a strong neuter (perhaps also masculine) (a -stem) scear , showing o -grade, but other types may be represented (compare the form scer , which could be of more than one origin, but may show e -grade). Compare also discussion at the related shear n.1
1. The large pointed blade of a plough, which, following the coulter, cuts a slice of earth horizontally and passes it on to the mouldboard; a ploughshare. Also in figurative context.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > ploughshare
shareOE
ploughsharea1387
sock1404
sough?a1475
suck1499
soke1661
plough point1837
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 20 Confirmato uomere et cultro aratro : gefæstnodon sceare & cultre mit þære syl.
OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xxxii. 241 Ut uomer linguę nostrę proscindere non audeat terram cordis alieni : þæt scer tungan ure fyrian na durre eorþan heortan fremedre.
lOE Laws: Gerefa (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 455 Mattuc, ippingiren, scear, culter & eac gadiren.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6890 Lat nime foure yrene ssares [c1400 BL Add. scharres] vor hire sulue al a fure.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (1870) l. 3763 A smyth..That in his forge smythed plogh harneys He sharpeth shaar [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 schar] and cultour bisily.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxxx/1 Whan he toke the share to make clene hys cultre, hyt cleuyd to hys hond.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. B3v The earth knew not the share, nor seas the barke.
1604–5 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 160 ij sheres to plow with, iiijs viijd.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 16 As stubborn Steers..Alike disdain with servile Necks to bear Th' unwonted Weight, or drag the crooked Share.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 21 Great Clots, that will not yield to the Coulter's Cut, nor the Sharr's Break.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 238 In whom the very foundations of belief have been ploughed up by the share of authority.
1880 R. Jefferies Greene Ferne Farm 111 An upturned plough with rusty share.
1931 B. A. Keen Physical Properties Soil i. 4 Little ridges of uncut soil that were left between each furrow if the setting of coulter and share were incorrect.
2000 Nature 11 May 125/1 Without a smooth, curved fitting between the share and the flat mould-board, they were constantly clogged with soil and weeds.
2. A part of another agricultural implement used for cutting the earth, esp. a seed drill.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills > part of
share1733
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 166 But I soon contrived a Plow with four iron Shares, to make Channels [for seed] in any Ground.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiii. 166 This Plow [sc. a drill plough] makes its Channels by three Sheats, and their Shares and Trunks.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 lxxxi. 346 After sowing, it will be proper to plow the ground, where the lucern grows, with a drill-plow, with a round share.
1861 Times 11 July The same implement frame..serves for ploughing, scarifying, trenching, digging, ridging, &c., according as it is fitted with shares for these various operations.
1997 P. D. McClelland Sowing Modernity iv. 73 The more numerous the shares or coulters, the wider the grain drill had to be.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, designating parts of the share or parts of a plough connected to the share.
share beam n. a wooden beam to which the share is fitted; cf. share head n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > share-beam
reesteOE
share beamOE
throckOE
chipOE
plough-heada1325
plough-reesta1325
plough chip1652
plough throck1652
chep1677
share head1776
furrower1841
OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 40 Brigacus, scearbeam.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ii The sharebeam is the tre vnderneth, whervpon the share is set.
1725 S. Peirson Present State Tillage in Ireland 33 AA the Plough-beam, B the Handle, C the Head or Share-beam.
1884 Longman's Mag. Feb. 403 The ‘hardy rustic’ [in Tuscany] still goes into the woods and seeks for an elm..for the share-beams with double backs, called ‘dentale a due dorsi’.
2008 Ulster Jrnl. Archaeol. 67 121/2 The plough consisted of a fairly straight rear-beam into which a share beam was mortised.
† share head n. Obsolete a wooden beam to which the share is fitted; cf. share beam n., plough-head n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > share-beam
reesteOE
share beamOE
throckOE
chipOE
plough-heada1325
plough-reesta1325
plough chip1652
plough throck1652
chep1677
share head1776
furrower1841
1776 F. Forbes Mod. Improvem. Agric. iv. Descr. Plates 643 If the rows are nearer than 2 feet, fewer shares will do, and 2 or more of the share-heads and shares, next the handles, may be slipped off.
1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 355 The share-beam or share-head: a piece of wood..to which the share was fitted.
† share fin n. Obsolete a sharp cutting edge projecting laterally from the share, designed to cut through roots; cf. fin n.1 3b.
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1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 196 Be carefull in keeping your..Share phin as sharp as may be.
1804 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Norfolk 187 On some farms I have remarked the furrow to be cut flat and clean, but on others wrest baulked, by tilting the plough to the left, which raising the share fin, makes that inequality.
share point n. the sharp pointed tip of the share.
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1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxix. 200 The Coulter stands a little above the Share-point, and not before it, but rather behind it.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 40 Just before the Sharr Point.
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa i. 3 The plough comes to a standstill, just revealing, at the share-point, the bruised side of a quartz pebble.
2017 T. P. Singh Farm Machinery ii. 21 Slip nose share... It has advantage that share point can be replaced as and when required once the point of share worn out.
C2.
† share acre n. Obsolete an acre of land held with the requirement to provide a ploughshare annually to the lord of the manor; also as a modifier, designating a quit-rent paid in lieu of this service.
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society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligation on owner to allow use by others > land over which servitude exists > specific
drovelandc1500
share acre1641
averland1670
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > things on or for which payment due
scot-alec1155
shot-ale1275
filst-alea1300
ale shotc1450
share acre1641
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > other fields
broom-fieldc1314
summer field1597
roughet1616
share acre1641
work field1684
town park1701
tath-field1753
town1822
gas field1833
summer country1860
broom-croft1871
infield1875
1641 Surv. Pleshebury Manor, Essex (MS.) f. 6 b For 1 acre of land called a share acre..12d.
1641 Surv. Pleshebury Manor, Essex (MS.) f. 4 b For rents that the saide Smyth receiveth of diverse other persons, called Share acre rents, payeth to this manor yearely.
† sharemaker n. Obsolete a person who makes or repairs ploughshares.
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1343 in G. Otto Handwerkernamen in Mittelengl. (1938) 85 (MED) Sharemakere.
?1794 Universal Brit. Directory of Trade, Commerce, & Manuf. III. 137/1 Fussell John, Edge-tool-maker. Hooper Joseph, Share-maker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

sharen.2

Brit. /ʃɛː/, U.S. /ʃɛ(ə)r/
Forms:

α. Old English scære (inflected form), Old English scæres (Northumbrian, genitive), Old English scaro, Old English scaru, Old English sceares (Northumbrian, genitive), Old English scearu, early Middle English sare (in a compound), Middle English chare, Middle English scar- (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English scare (in a compound, in copies of Old English charters), Middle English scear- (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English sceare (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English schar, Middle English sharre, Middle English (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter) 1500s schare, Middle English– share, 1500s shaire, 1800s shar (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 saire, pre-1700 schair, pre-1700 schare, pre-1700 schayre, pre-1700 shair, pre-1700 shaire, pre-1700 shayr, pre-1700 sheaire, pre-1700 shear, pre-1700 1700s– share.

β. Old English scere (inflected form), Old English scyre (inflected form), Middle English chere (in a compound), Middle English scher- (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter), Middle English schere (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter).

γ. south-western late Old English–early Middle English (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter) score, early Middle English scor- (in a compound, in a copy of an Old English charter).

See also share n.3
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sker , skar , skēr , skār (neuter) parcel of common land (West Frisian skar , sker part of a common pasture, part of a pasture sufficient for one cow, hay required to feed one cow, manure produced by one cow), Middle Dutch scaer , schāre portion, parcel of land, part of a pasture sufficient for one animal, harvest, crop (Dutch schaar ), Old Saxon skara share in a right of common (Middle Low German schāre provision required to feed one animal, part of a pasture sufficient for one animal), Middle High German schar harvest, yield, income, Old Icelandic skǫr hair, rim, edge, joint, (perhaps after German) troop (in modern Icelandic also ‘ledge, step, stool’), Swedish regional skar small bench, and also (apparently showing the same formation) Old Frisian skere , skare , skāre , skār (feminine; West Frisian skare ), Old Dutch skara (Middle Dutch scāre , schāre , Dutch schaar ), Old Saxon skara (Middle Low German schār , schāre ), Old High German scara (Middle High German schar , German Schar ), all in a range of senses ‘troop, army, host, crowd, multitude, company, entourage’, in the modern languages also ‘group of animals, flock, shoal’, in Middle High German also ‘compulsory service, punishment’ < the same Germanic base as shear v. Compare share n.1 and shear n.1, and also share n.3 and skair n.Form history. The β. forms are apparently influenced by forms of ultimately related shear v. (compare also shear n.1), but may partly also show phonological reduction in the second element of compounds. The γ. forms apparently show the influence of the stem vowel of Old English scoren , past participle of shear v.; compare also score n. Compare forms at share n.3 Sense development and use in Old English compounds. In Old English, outside compounds, the word is only attested with reference to the cutting of human hair or shearing of animals (see sense 1) and in the sense ‘groin’, i.e. the place where the body divides (see share n.3). Currency of further senses, some of which are paralleled in other Germanic languages, appears to be implied by the attestation in compounds. With the uses denoting groups of people in continental Germanic languages compare use in compounds folcscearu (compare folk n.) and lēodscearu (compare lede n.1), both in sense ‘people, nation’. These and other Old English compounds appear to imply an underlying sense ‘result of division’ comparable to the sense ‘share (of a thing)’ attested in some continental Germanic languages and the later sense ‘part, portion’ in English (see branch II.). However, it is uncertain whether the element in the compounds would have been apprehended as showing that sense itself; a possible candidate is the use in quot. OE1 below where folcscare has been translated as ‘the common land’ (literally ‘the people's share’; referring to land not in the disposition of a king); however, a valid interpretation is also attainable if the word has its usual sense ‘people, nation’. In the case of Old English hearmscearu (allotted) punishment, penalty (compare harm n.), the Old English use is evidently influenced by the Old Saxon source of the text. Compare:OE Beowulf (2008) 73 Þær on innan eall gedælan geongum ond ealdum, swylc him God sealde, buton folcscare ond feorum gumena.OE Genesis B 829 Gif ic waldendes willan cuðe, hwæt ic his to hearmsceare habban sceolde. The most frequent compound in Old English is landscearu (compare land n.1), usually glossed ‘share, division, or portion of land, boundary of land’. It is a toponymic term chiefly attested in charter bounds of Anglo-Saxon charters (sometimes preserved in Middle English copies), often in use with reference to boundary markers, in a range of senses that is difficult to determine exactly, although it is clearly used of both boundaries and tracts of land. The word is occasionally attested in Middle English in similar uses, including in place names (chiefly minor) and local surnames, in which it shows a typically south-western distribution. Apparently, in that period, it could also (rarely) denote a kind of land-rent. Borrowing into Anglo-Norman and post-classical Latin. The English word was borrowed into Anglo-Norman and post-classical Latin. Compare post-classical Latin shar , shara , sharum duty levied on fishing boats (a1189), portion of a prize or booty taken at sea (1411), Anglo-Norman share portion of a prize or booty taken at sea (a1350), duty levied on fishing boats (1384). Compare the following instances, implying earlier currency of the English word in senses 2a (quot. a1189, showing the Latin word) and 2b (quots. a1350, a1426, showing the Anglo-Norman word, and quot. 1411, apparently showing the Latin word):a1189 in A. Ballard Brit. Borough Charters (1913) 234 Jurabunt quod saras..suas..abbatem habere facient..; de omnibus navibus xxvi remorum duas saras reddent et dimidiam.a1350 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25012) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 172 Item, de prendre et saisir pour ladmiral les shares a lui dues doffice de toutes maneres de biens pris ou gaignez sur la mer.1411 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/67/18) Item 4 Et ibidem cepit vnum Shar' de Thoma Isse magistro vnius Ballenger voc' Trinite in contemptu domini Principis.a1426 in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1871) I. 400 Ladmiral aura un share del entierte.It is often uncertain whether a vernacular instance in a Latin linguistic context shows the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word; compare note at sense 2a.
†I. The action or practice of cutting, shearing, or shaving something.
1. The action or practice of cutting, shearing, or shaving something; (also) the result of this. Obsolete.
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 757 Her Eadberht Norðhymbra cyning feng to scære [lOE Laud scære] & Oswulf his sunu feng to þam rice.
OE Laws: Norðhymbra Preosta Lagu (Corpus Cambr.) xxxiv. 382 Gif preost sceare misgime beardes oððe feaxes, gebete þæt.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Laud) xxxi. 19 On þære tide ferde Laban to his sceapa sceare [OE Claud. to hys scepscere].
II. A part or portion of something, and related senses.
2. A part or portion of something that has been shared out or distributed between people.See esp. senses 2c and 2d, which are the most common senses from the late 16th cent.For probable earlier currency of senses 2a and 2b see etymological note.
†a. In plural. A duty levied on fishing boats, originating as a part or portion of the catch. See also share n.2 Obsolete.Both quots. show the word in a Latin context, and could alternatively be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman word: see discussion in the etymology section.
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1343 Bailiff's Acct., Rye (P.R.O.: SC 6/1028/11) m. 1. §2 Idem respondet de xv.d' recept' de Johanne Clenche de quadam cust' nauium & batill' piscancium supra mare ibid' que cust' vocat' Scharz.
1372 Foreign Acct. 46 Edward III (P.R.O.: E 364/6) m. 1 dorso Custuma Nauium batellorum piscancium super mare ibidem [sc. Winchelsea] vocat' Shares.
†b. The portion of a prize (prize n.2 1) or booty taken at sea owed to each of the officers and crew members involved in the capture. Obsolete.
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1481 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 80 My Lord paid John Petman ix.li. x.s. For xxxviij. chares; that is the maister ij. chares, and him self ij. chares and xxxiiij. persones, that is xxxiiij. chares.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/1 Schare of a man of a prise of warre tyme, butin.
1544 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 141 All suche maryners as wyll not sail in the said shippe for their shaires.
1653 Descr. & Plat Sea-coasts Eng. sig. A3 As to the Shares in Prizes.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3815/2 The Assisting Ships shall have no greater Shares..than has been accustomed.
c. A part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or (from the 20th cent. onwards, sometimes coloured by sense 4) to which a number of people contribute.Frequently with possessive pronoun and with the larger amount indicated in a prepositional phrase introduced by of, as in his share of the loot.
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a share
lotOE
metc1225
partc1300
portion?1316
share1539
coportion1596
quota1688
ration1850
chop1919
low1934
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun]
dealc825
lotOE
dolea1225
partc1300
portion?1316
sort1382
parcelc1400
skiftc1400
pane1440
partagec1450
shift1461
skair1511
allotment1528
snapshare1538
share1539
slice1548
fee1573
snap1575
moiety1597
snatch1601
allotterya1616
proportiona1616
symbol1627
dealth1637
quantum1649
cavelc1650
snip1655
sortition1671
snack1683
quota1688
contingency1723
snick1723
contingent1728
whack1785
divvy1872
end1903
bite1925
1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye sig. E All thy goodes..broken and distrybute in thy presence, that euery rauenor may haue his share.
1575 G. Gascoigne Weedes in Wks. (1907) I. 454 Antonius who conquered prowde Egipt..Chose Cleopatra for his love... He snapt but hir for his owne share.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 94 Thus hath one Poet, three crownes to his share.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 534 Taking our turn to row..my share amounted to little lesse than 20 legues.
1703 tr. S. von Pufendorf Of Law of Nature & Nations iv. vi. 339/1 They assign'd to each person his share out of the General Stock.
1773 Pennsylvania Gaz. 6 Oct. 3/1 The Czarina has relinquished all her share of Poland..in lieu of a guarantee from Austria and Prussia of all her claims upon the Turks.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 307 They insisted upon their shares, and refused to fight unless they obtained a portion of the spoil.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. Prol. 16 There is gold here, my friend, and we must get our share of it.
1933 M. Anderson Both your Houses i. ii. 55 Re-electing a fat crook because he..sees that they don't get gypped out of their share of the plunder.
1955 Proc. 20th National Convent. (Young Women's Christian Assoc. U.S.) 245​ Each earnestly preparing herself to take on her share of the task ahead.
1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 10 June 3/3 Hundreds of children spent a few minutes of furious activity seizing their share of about 7000 sweets tossed among them.
1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 1/2 Under the proposals, investors, public companies and those making takeover bids would pay a greater share of the annual fees.
2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 17/2 Since 1979..the bottom 80 percent of American families had their share of the country's income fall, while the top 20 percent had modest gains.
d. With possessive pronoun. The allotted or due amount of some quality, condition, etc., that a person expects to enjoy or endure; the portion of something bad that might fairly and equitably be expected to befall someone.Frequently with that which is allotted indicated in a prepositional phrase introduced by of, as in more than her share of grief.Recorded slightly earlier in the parallel Scots forms covered at skair n. (see, e.g., quot. 1584 at that entry).
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a share > one's due share
share1596
1596 ‘L. Pyott’ tr. A. Sylvain Orator xxii. 134 Although it were so, that I had gotten your daughter with child (the which I denie, and she can neuer proue) doe you thinke that I would buy of her by marriage, that which she hath alreadie giuen me, because shee would haue her share of the pleasure?
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 211 One who by this reclus'd passive condition hath his share of this hideous storme.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Lazy Drones, without their Share of Pain; In Winter Quarters free, devour the Gain. View more context for this quotation
1745 C. H. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 65 Lady Lucy indeed was very plentifully abused, and Mr. Hobart had his share.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. x. 294 Though God is good, there are dreadful misfortunes in the world, and I suppose we shall have our share of them.
1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (1862) II. iv. 141 It cannot be denied that the lower animals have their share of whatever evil exists in the universe.
1931 Times 23 Nov. 14/2 He was a typical hard-headed north French business man, with all the energy, clear-sightedness, and strength of will of his class, and less than his share of its limitations.
2006 Independent on Sunday 29 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 34/1 She has had more than her share of personal demons.
e. An amount or degree of a quality, attribute, etc., present in someone or something; spec. the amount with which someone or something is, or is expected to be, naturally endowed. Now somewhat archaic.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > an allotment without notion of sharing > by nature or providence
share1722
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 285 Those Physicians, who had the least Share of Religion in them, were oblig'd to acknowledge that it was all supernatural.
1742 M. Whiteway in Earl of Orrery Remarks Life & Writings Swift (1752) xi. 90 Mr. Nichols thought it possible he might return to a share of understanding.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 313 Exerting that youthful agility of which he possessed an uncommon share.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiii. 293 Her mamma and sister..regarded her with that amiable pity, of which your really superior woman always has such a share to give away.
1938 J. F. Scott Math. Work J. Wallis xi. 175 It is difficult to understand why Wallis should have been so eager to acquire so great a share of controversial notoriety.
1977 E. Mezvinsky Term to Remember iv. 49 For a twenty-three-year-old, he had an unusual share of common sense.
f. Broadcasting. An estimate of the percentage of households that use television or radio viewing or listening to a particular television or radio station during a specific period of time, used as a measure of popularity; = audience share n.Sometimes with a prefixed number indicating the percentage.
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society > communication > broadcasting > audience > [noun] > size of
tune-in1931
rating1935
audience rating1941
Nielsen rating1951
TAM rating1958
reach1959
share1974
1974 Broadcasting 12 Aug. 28/3 In the most recent national overnights..it hit its low of the season so far, an 11.8 rating and 27 share.
1989 Daily Tel. 8 June 20/2 We've trebled the daytime ratings and share.
2004 Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. Nationally, the BBC's share increased by 1.3 per cent to 54.4 per cent.
3.
a. A part or piece of a larger whole; an amount, but not all, of something. Formerly also: †any of the smaller parts into which a thing is or may be divided; a section, a segment (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a or some part of something
somedeala900
somethingc1200
somewhat1297
portionc1390
sharea1450
sort1575
something1654
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 881 (MED) Oure gude angel Al our warkes to god wil tel, Al be it neuer so litil a schar.
1589 A. Munday tr. F. de Vernassal Hist. Palmendos xxix. f. 89 She might goe visite her Mother for seauen or eight daies, where with her she might beare a share of her greefe and heauines.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 156 Where turning south, and breaking it selfe into many small shares, rilles or streames, it left the name of Share borne lane.
1664 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 214 I intend..to have them..out of ye custody of our Kendall gaoler who is a great share of a Fanatick himselfe.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 275 My friends..have engaged to spend a share of to-morrow, in a party of pleasure upon the Thames.
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 76 In a dry one [sc. seed time] the barley sown on the sand land frequently comes up in ‘two shares’, and ripens unequally.
1882 Gazetteer Bombay Presidency XIII. i. iii. 178 They do not take the land on a regular lease, but occasionally sublet it from the Government tenants, to whom they pay a share of the produce.
1992 UNIX Rev. Mar. 47/2 An increasing share of the time spent in any UNIX system is spent doing activities required for security.
2009 Daily Tel. 14 Dec. (Business section) b2/3 The government's deficit as a share of GDP is going to be about double what it was then and the stock of debt is much higher.
†b. A piece or section cut out or broken away from something; (in later use) spec. a slice of something. Obsolete (regional in later use).Strongly influenced by share v.1 and sharing n.1
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off
cutting1382
culponc1400
clipping1461
chop?1463
shearing1536
sharing?1553
chopping1558
snip1558
share1590
snipping1611
offcut1663
snippet1664
kerf1678
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5v Therewith vpon his crest With rigor so outrageous he smitt, That a large share it hewd out of the rest.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 29 No wonder then in..the fierce encounter of truth and fa[l]shood together, if, as it were the splinters and shares of so violent a jousting, there fall [etc.].
1769 Clerk Colvill in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Scots Songs 302 Frae his sark he cut a share.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) The skate fish is usually dressed for sale and cut into slices or shares.
†c. A division of land or territory. Obsolete .
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided
dealinga1300
divisionc1374
partc1392
spacec1392
long divisionc1400
severingc1400
skyvaldc1400
foddinga1425
panelc1450
partition1561
roomstead1600
canton1601
separation1604
share1643
scissurea1667
cutting1726
departmenta1735
segment1762
compartment1793
distribution1829
segregation1859
dept.1869
section1875
tmema1891
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > allotted land
allotment1560
deal1600
lot1633
share1643
lotment1651
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 158 So as now they began to divide the Country [sc. Bermuda] into Tribes, and the Tribes into shares.
a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (1770) I. i. 116 To each plow they reckon a certain number of acres, which by a general name is called a share; each share hath particularly such and such half acres or stangs assigned to it by name to make up the given number.
4. With in. The part played in, or contribution made to, an activity, enterprise, etc., by someone or something. Frequently in to have (also take, etc.) a share in: to take part or participate in (something); to share in. Cf. share v.2 1.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > participation in common interest > that which is participated in
share1572
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > participate with > participate in
enterparta1413
to be art and part in (also of)1442
to have art or (and) part ina1500
enjoin1546
share1570
to have (also take, etc.) a share in1572
to have a hand in1583
fellow1596
share1600
to contribute to (also for) or to do1605
to fall in1651
join1716
to opt into1968
1572 G. Fenton tr. E. Pasquier Monophylo ii. f. 5v Wee euen feele the displeasures they suffer, and endure a share in their woes and miseries.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B Hieronimo, it greatly pleaseth vs, That in our victorie thou haue a share.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 103 Somerset came again into a Share in the Government.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 267 Our ship had also some share in the danger.
1779 Mirror No. 60 The philosopher..took little share in the conversation.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 362 (note) He is extolled as having borne a principal share in the emancipation of the press.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 80 He who has no share in the administration of justice, appears to himself to have no share in the state.
1938 C. L. R. James Black Jacobins (2001) xiii. 255 His wife, Marie-Jeanne, had joined him and took her share in the defence.
2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 74 From, roughly, the 1860s novelists could think of themselves as having a share in the immortality of literature.
5. Business and Finance.
a. Each of the notional parts into which property held by joint owners is divided.Recorded earlier in the parallel Scottish forms covered at skair n. (see, e.g., quot. 1552 at that entry).
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?c1600 Stirling Hammermen's Oath in Trans. Nat. Hist. & Archæol. Soc. Stirling 1927–8 (1928) 24 No nutrel man shall have any shair of my buseness or the profets ariseng therefrom.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 4 The ship, wherein my Father had halfe share.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 487 He was seeking to bring me into the project, & proferred me a share.
1762 Petition J. Bertram 4 George Gordon's Share of the Company Stock.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 58 A share in the New River water is held to be real property, as also a share in the navigation of the river Avon.
1923 Times 13 Feb. 5/1 The plaintiff alleges that she was induced by fraudulent misrepresentation to subscribe £200 for a share in the business.
2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 18 Dec. 9 An 82-year-old racing fan from Belfast has won his dream Christmas present—a share in a racehorse.
b. Each of the equal parts into which a company's stock (stock n.1 52a) is divided, entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits and often conferring the right to vote on matters relating to the management of the issuing company. Usually in plural.deferred share: see deferred adj. ordinary share: see ordinary adj. 5c. See also golden share n., preference share n., preferred share n.
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1689 Case Company White-paper-makers 3 The present Company consists of four hundred Shares, at fifty pounds per Share, each Subscriber is to have one Share (which is to be added to the said four hundred Shares) for every fifty Pounds which he shall subscribe.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4484/3 All Persons that have any Demands.., on account of their Old Additional Stock, commonly called the Shares, are desired..to repair to Skinner's Hall.
1750 A. Hooke Ess. National Debt 48 That..the Capital Annuity..[be divided] into four thousand lesser Annuities..vested in the Individuals of each Class, in proportion to the Number of Shares subscribed by them.
1843 Hull Packet 13 Jan. Do you not think the public would at once enter into my scheme, and eagerly purchase shares in an ‘Anti-splash and mud company’.
1893 Law Times 95 305/2 If she wished to be sure of her income she should of all things avoid dabbling in the shares of new companies.
1979 Daily Tel. 5 May 23/2 Shares in EMI were sent reeling yesterday after a warning by the company of likely..losses.
2006 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 6 Jan. c1 He sells shares at high prices and rebuys them at lower prices.
6.
a. An act of jointly using or occupying something, esp. one's accommodation or transport, with someone; accommodation or a means of transport that is shared by two or more people.Frequently as the second element in compounds, e.g. car share n., flatshare n., ground share n., house-share n., ride-share n.
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1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cv. 154 There was but one chamber allotted for two lodgers; but this was not considered as any great hardship.., because, in that case, there was always a sufficient number of males, who willingly admitted the females to a share of their apartments and beds.
1817 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 15 Dec. 229/1 We know that her father had clothed, fed, and afforded Haydn a share of his house gratis for more than a year.
1914 Suffragette 23 Jan. 340/1 (advt.) Member (worker) offers lady the share of her flat: moderate expenses.
1969 ‘K. Norway’ Dedication Jones iv. 52 ‘Where are you proposing to live?’ ‘With Staff Nurse Innes, Matron. She's offered me a share of her flat, in Guerdon Road.’
1997 Express 19 Feb. 73/4 I noticed the lady next to me was getting soaked. I offered her a share of my umbrella and at first she understandably refused.
2019 @notevanrenner 28 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 6 Dec. 2021) Using a van share from the Boston airport and this black out drunk women sitting next to me was sexting the entire time... using talk to text.
b. U.S. spec. A share in a property, esp. a holiday home, under a time-sharing scheme; = timeshare n. 2b. Also: the house, apartment, etc., so shared; a timeshare property.
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1984 W. Wasserstein in N.Y. Times 4 Nov. (Mag.) 37/1 Molly is just another girl..waiting for a discriminating Root Canal Man to invite her for an unfulfilling weekend at his summer share in the Hamptons.
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead xi. 251 Really sorry we can't come home over the summer, Mama. You know we've got this share in Washington State.
2013 @LorettaLWorters 2 July in twitter.com (accessed 1 Dec. 2021) Renting a share in the Hamptons? A cottage on the Cape? Make sure you have the right insurance this summer!
7. An instance of posting or reposting something on a social media website or application.
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2008 candycat 11 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Dec. 2021) HA! great share. and so true.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. b6/1 Facebook said..‘the median amount of feedback on posts (likes, comments, shares) from people who have more than 10,000 subscribers is up 34 percent from a year ago’.
2021 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 June d10/2 I'd attracted a mere 950 [Instagram] followers... ‘Professional’ status lets you access..metrics that track how many impressions your hashtags generated, how many shares or follows each post got.

Phrases

P1.
a. share and share alike (formerly also †share and share like): equal shares; (as an adjectival or adverbial phrase) divided into equal shares; with each having an equal portion or amount. Sometimes also simply share and share. See also to share and share alike at share v.2 Phrases 2a.From the 20th cent. examples of the noun or adjectival phrase are typically better understood as uses of to share and share alike (cf. quots. 1989, 20211 at share v.2 Phrases 2a).
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the mind > possession > sharing > [phrase] > with equal shares
portion and portion like1540
share and share likea1566
share and share alike1766
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Gjv Let vs into the Courte to parte the spoyle, share and share like.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 68 Edward the Third..promiseth them [sc. the Flemings] share and share like with his own People.
1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court ii. 8 The Articles were these: Share and share like whate'er they got.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xiv. 218 Their representatives..shared the inheritance per capita, that is, share and share alike.
1830 Sc. Jurist 2 246/2 £200 to his grand-daughter, Mary, alone, if there should be then no issue of his other daughters alive,—share and share with them, if alive.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxxi. 218 I bequeath to my nephews and nieces..the whole of my..personal effects, share and share alike.
1886 M. Laing-Meason Sir William's Speculations 75 All costs, charges, and similar payments should be share and share alike.
1975 Assembly Bill (Calif. Senate Bill No. 1105) 14 Payment shall be paid to the members of the group entitled,..share and share alike.
1990 U.S. Tax Court Rep. 94 668 The Trustee or Trustees shall then distribute the Trust estate to Sally Lynn Nicholson Miller and William B. Nicholson, equally, share and share alike.
b. to go share and share alike (formerly also like): to share or participate together in an activity, enterprise, condition, etc.; to contribute towards something along with others; = to go shares at Phrases 4b. Sometimes also simply to go share and share. Typically followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by in or with. Now rare.
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a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 150 Some interpret this of their Commons, wherein all of the same Mess go share and share alike.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables vii. 6 Every one to go share and share-like in what they took.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 30 He declar'd he had reserv'd nothing from the Men, and went Share and Share alike with them in every Bit they eat.
1832 F. Trollope Refugee in Amer. II. xxi. 119 Let me go share and share with you in what he has offered.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lviii She fondly hoped that he might be inclined to go share and share alike with Twin junior.
1933 N.Y. Times 4 June (Bk. Review section) 4/1 There was once a real Utopia in America, whose happy citizens went share and share alike, in which there was no unemployment of the painful sort.
1938 Classical Q. 32 18 He knew..he must enlist the help of the oligarchs and go share and share with them.
P2. to fall to one's share (also to fall to the share of).
a. To be allotted or apportioned to a person. Now rare.Increasingly dated in use from the early 20th cent.
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1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 90 I may folow him in thother world, where participating indiferently such good and euil as falleth to his share.
a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 134 Setting the Cards is when hee that shuffles mingles the cards so that when hee deales those may fall to his share that are the best for the game they play at.
1778 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (ed. 2) I. iv. 320 The functions in domestic œconomy are many, which fall to the share of women.
1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. July 387 They divided the field of work between them... To Kotschy's share fell the flowering plants.
1966 Irish Times 18 May 9/2 The artist must console himself with whatever crumbs of advertisement may fall to his share.
2010 Ann. Bhandarkar Oriental Res. Inst. 91 166 In London, even the mission to propose the vote of thanks for president of the Congress, Max Müller fell to his share.
b. With infinitive as complement. To fall to one's lot to be or do something. Now rare.Increasingly dated in use from the early 20th cent.
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1637 Earl of Monmouth tr. V. Malvezzi Romulus & Tarquin 169 Had it fallen to the common people of Romes share to give their vote.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 203 It fell to my share to be confined to a roome in the house.
1744 J. Merrick Heliocrene (new ed.) App. 18 While in this Retirement they diverted themselves on various Subjects of Poetry, it fell to his Share to celebrate the Spring.
1842 F. Chamier Passion & Principle II. i. 10 Meanwhile Miss Littledale and Miss Fanshaw fell to Ellen's share to entertain.
1918 B. Jarrett Abiding Presence of Holy Ghost (1935) 37 I have to strive to be efficient and effective in the material things of life that fall to my share to be done.
1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Aug. 21/1 Presumably his [sc. Fredson Bowers] great age was among the ‘personal circumstances’ which prevented him from consulting the manuscript text that fell to his share to edit.
P3. for my (his, etc.) share: as regards one's personal part in a matter; as far as one is concerned. Cf. for one's part at part n.1 Phrases 1b. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > for one's own part
a (also in, of) party1372
for one's (own) parta1393
of his behalfa1500
for one's particular1565
on (also upon) one's own account1609
for my (his, etc.) share1643
1643 L. Gatford Exhort. Peace 11 I confesse for my share, that, as where I call to minde the reigning sinnes of these times..I doe not wonder to see and heare of such multitudes, that startle at our set formes of publike prayer.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 24 And verily, for my share, I cannot see why [etc.].
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams II. ii. 25 For my share, misfortune comes so thick upon me, that [etc.].
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. v. 321 Busy sits Carnot,..busy for his share, in ‘organizing victory’.
1891 Western Times (Exeter) 20 Nov. 8/5 We will gladly give them the ‘moral’ and I for my share will take the ‘twelve hundred and twelve victory’, and say no more about it.
2006 University Wire (Nexis) 29 Mar. For my share, I recently talked to one of my professors who sounded a similar note to Tilghman's.
P4.
†a. to run shares (in early use also to run a share): to share or participate together in an activity, enterprise, event, etc.; to contribute towards something along with others; = to go shares at Phrases 4b. Typically followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by in or with. Cf. to run sharers. Obsolete.
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1644 R. Josselin Diary 17 Oct. (1976) 25 Goodman Burton run a share with mee.
a1674 R. Venning Remains (1675) 141 Now you see the us is laid aside, and they do not run shares with Christ as they did before.
1737 J. Bisset Serm. preached before Presbytery of Aberdeen To Rdr. p. iv Amos had his share of slander and reproach; I think I may venture to run shares with him.
1759 Life & Real Adventures Hamilton Murray III. ix. 184 If I would join with him, we would run shares in the purchase.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 182/1 The two scoundrels..have run shares in this imposition.
1889 A. Brown Memorials Argyleshire iv. ii. 237 Having got a parcel of Gaelic ballads, he was persuaded to run shares with a bookseller in their publication, which turned out a severe loss.
b. to go shares (formerly also †to go a share): to share something with another person; to share or participate together in an activity, enterprise, event, etc.; to contribute towards something along with others. Typically followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by in or with. Cf. earlier to go sharers at sharer n. Phrases.
†(a) With the noun in the singular. Obsolete.
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1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 35 This fellow (the Host) kept a Cabaret, and went a share with the Filous, when they inticed their Gulls in there to drink, and be cheated of their money at play.
1655 R. Loveday tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia: 3rd Pt. i. 14 This afflicted person pronounced these words with so sad accent, as wrought upon the Queen to goe a share in her sufferings.
1706 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1600 to Treaty of Nimeguen IV. 3 They might..go a Share with them in settling the Kingdom.
(b) With the noun in the plural.
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1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 897 He was inflexible to any mercy, unsatiable in his gainings, equally snatching at small and great things, so much that he went shares with the thieves, for many used that trade, and paid part of the booty to him.
1660 T. Scott tr. Last Will & Test. Carolus Gustavus 7 He and I will never go shares again.
1686 tr. J. B. Bossuet Disc. Hist. Whole World i. 43 The Samaritans..were resolved to go shares with them in this great Work, and under the pretence of worshipping the God of Israel.
1733 Dialogue between Sir Andrew Freeport & Timothy Squat 30 The Gentleman you mean, Sir,..scorns to go Shares in the Plunder of his Country.
1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 26 Aug. (1964) II. 344 Go shares with him and me, in a periodical work.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch iv If you find the treasure we will go shares.
1927 Daily Mail 1 Aug. 13/5 (advt.) They are going shares in a Presentation Package of Toblerone, the delicious milk chocolate with almonds and honey.
1989 G. Vanderhaeghe Homesick xiv. 191 They couldn't rustle up a nickel among them if they went shares.
2004 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Real Estate section) 50 It seemed like a good idea at the time to go shares with her brother in the purchase of a house on almost 55ha of fertile fruit farming land.
†c. to club one's shares (of a number of people) to contribute towards or participate together in an expense, enterprise, etc.; to go shares with each other. Obsolete.
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1814 J. Mill Let. 30 Sept. in D. Ricardo Wks. & Corr. (1962) VI. lxi. 138 Young ladies, one sui juris (at least I believe so) t'other not, club their shares.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 42 Bubbleburgh is only one of a set of five boroughs which club their shares for a member of parliament.
1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. vii. 284 The property may be said to descend to the eldest son in trust for all the younger brothers,..who commonly live together and club their shares.
†d. In plural, as an exclamation expressing the desire or demand to be allowed to share in some gain, windfall, etc. Also to cry shares: to express this desire or make this demand. Obsolete.
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1829 Sheffield Independent 5 Dec. ‘Hey,’ says he, ‘I'm lucky to-day.’ ‘Aye,’ says Read, who steps up at the same moment, ‘so am I; I cry shares, whatever it be.’
1860 W. R. Shepherd Adventures Mr. Ambiguous Law x. 188 ‘Hallo! Bill, whad'ya got there?’ shouted one. ‘Shares! shares!’ said another. ‘No sneaking,’ said a third.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 128 Why touch the thing myself When I could see you hunt and then cry ‘Shares! Quarter the carcass or we quarrel’.
1890 Spring-heeled Jack xxx. 118 ‘I cry shares,’ said Grabham, now convinced it was of value.
1905 Longman's Mag. June 137 ‘Look,’ she said, ‘that's Bob Jermy; he be waiten' for that case ter come ashore. Let's follow him inside th' dunes and wait till he get that on th' sand, and then cry shares.’
P5. on shares (also upon shares, on the shares): working, esp. on a farm or fishing boat, under a profit-sharing arrangement rather than for wages; (sometimes more generally) working under any kind of sharecropping system. Formerly often in to go on shares (with). Cf. sharecropping n., sharefarming n., shareman n., sharemilking n.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adverb]
on sharesa1657
a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 155 All her men were upon shars.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 216 Men can always be had to go on shares, which is by far the most profitable method, both to the employers and the fishermen.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. v. 118 He had proposed to me to send a venture by the same ship, or go on shares with him.
1882 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox Sketches from Texas Siftings 51 The joyful glee of farming with negro renters ‘on the shares’.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 345/2 It all came out of his own pocket, for he was sailing the vessel on shares.
2002 Western Horseman Jan. 43 Some people say you can't afford to run cattle on shares anymore, but I think there are opportunities to make it work... Share-cows have been good to us.
†P6. to take share of (something): to share (something, esp. food or drink) with another person. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (transitive)]
dealOE
partc1330
skair1462
parten1508
usurpa1513
communicatea1530
participate1531
partake1563
impart1581
reciprocate1611
copart1613
share1613
to take share of (something)1678
1678 True Narr. Proc. Old-Bayly 28–31 Aug. 3 The Deceased meeting the Prisoner accidentally, desired him to take share of a Pint of Wine, which the Prisoner would willingly have avoided; but in vain he endeavoured it, since the Deceased would not part till they had Drunk together.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 127 I took Share of a Beef-stake and Two Muggs of Ale with my Chapman.
1860 Morning Chron. 29 Dec. 7/3 Peter Rickards..came in to look for my sister to go down to take share of a leg of mutton with him.
P7. the Queen's share (also the King's share): a gap in a fishing weir which had by law to be kept open in order to allow the passage of certain fish, esp. salmon, along the river. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > weir
heck1424
weir-heckc1467
ebbing-weir1472
strite1537
ebbing-lock1539
stell yair1600
hedge1653
weir house1791
the Queen's share?1795
?1795 W. A. Osbaldiston Universal Sportsman 23/1 There is twenty-one feet to be left open during this time, in the deepest part of every river, for the free passage of fish to encrease the species..[this gap is called the ‘King's Share’].
1842 Act 5 & 6 Victoria c. 106 §41 A free Gap or Queen's Share shall be left or formed in the deepest Part of such River.
1955 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 85 28 The free gap, then called the Queen's share, was to be cleared out and an offending spur wall was ordered to be removed.

Compounds

C1. In compounds with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characterized by sharing something’. Cf. sharecropper n., sharecropping n. sharefarmer n., sharefarming n., shareman n., sharemilker n., sharemilking n.
share fisherman n. a member of the crew of a fishing boat who receives an agreed proportion of the profits of a voyage rather than wages; cf. shareman n. 2, sharesman n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > profit-sharing
shareman1687
sharesman1829
share fisherman1835
1835 in 1st Rep. Commissioners Inq. State Irish Fisheries (1836) 29 in Parl. Papers 1837 XXII. 1 Thomas Bishop, a Share Fisherman.
1901 Scotsman 11 Sept. 8/5 The Grimsby owners and the share fishermen last night arrived at a final settlement of all outstanding questions between them.
2009 R. van Ginkel Braving Troubled Waters iv. 171 If share fishermen fall ill, are on holiday or cannot work for other reasons, they do not earn a penny.
share hand n. U.S. a share tenant or sharecropper.See note at sharecropper n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > share-farmer
sharecropper1871
share hand1871
share tenant1872
sharefarmer1874
1871 Southern Cultivator Feb. 60/2 One of these share hands sold melons to the value of from sixty to seventy dollars.
1911 J. W. Jenks & W. J. Lauck Immigration Probl. 83 How much value careful cultivation, kitchen gardens and small store accounts may be to the cotton ‘share hand’ and tenant.
2003 N. E. Woodruff Amer. Congo ii. 54 The twelve tenants had twenty-four share hands of their own, and lost only one-sixth of them during the year.
share house n. originally and chiefly Australian a house that is rented by two or more people living independently, who have separate bedrooms but share a kitchen, bathroom, and other communal spaces; also as a modifier.
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1945 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) 31 Aug. 11/3 (advt.) Urgently required... Flat, Rooms, House, or share house.
1996 L. Jaivin Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space (1998) 59 The reasonably spacious kitchen, with its mixed antipasto of found plates and scavenged cutlery,..was the warm and nourishing center of sharehouse life.
2019 Parramatta (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 10 July 5 Four young people living in a share house might conjure scenes of non-stop parties and slobby living but for those on the brink of homelessness, it's like a castle.
share plate n. chiefly Australian a serving or selection of food that is shared by two or more diners, esp. in a restaurant; cf. sharing plate.
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1998 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Oct. (Good Living section) 3/6 Decor that's a gourmet dog's breakfast and more concepts—share plates, noodles, mix 'n' match crockery—than you can throw a chopstick at.
2021 Canberra Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. To eat, there are share-plates galore. From Appellation oysters to manchego and jamon fritters.
share-taxi n. a taxicab or similar vehicle which is shared by passengers travelling to various destinations along the same route; a service of this type.Recorded earliest as a modifier.
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1943 Washington Post 2 Jan. 1 b/2 Share-Taxi aim... PUC Chairman James H. Flanagan has again warned cab drivers that participation in the group, or pickup-to-capacity service, is not a whimsical matter.
1957 New Yorker 12 Oct. 160/2 Once, in a share-taxi returning to London from another track, I heard a man say to his companion, ‘You keep your eye on 'im.’
2004 Global Nov. 48/1 Slightly more expensive but much more comfortable is the system of share-taxis that travel on many of the more popular routes.
share tenant n. chiefly U.S. a tenant farmer who gives a percentage of the income from their crops to a landowner as rent, and who is responsible for providing labour, equipment, and usually a degree of management.Share tenants are distinguished from sharecroppers (see sharecropper n.) in that they typically farm larger plots or operate farms with larger outputs than sharecroppers do.
ΚΠ
1872 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 25 Dec. 2/2 The tax..should be paid..to the producers, the planters, the share tenants, and the colored men who raised it [sc. cotton].
1935 C. S. Johnson et al. Collapse of Cotton Tenancy i. 22 For a share tenant to rise above his status he must overcome insuperable obstacles.
2008 H. Jordan Mudbound (2009) 75 They were share tenants, not sharecroppers, so they only paid me a quarter of their crop as opposed to half.
C2.
a. Business and Finance. As a modifier (in sense 5), as in share list, share market, share purchase, share sale, etc.
ΚΠ
1825 Sunday Times 3 July The Share Market continues in a most languid state.
1846 Daily News 21 Jan. 5/5 Leeds Exchange.—Notice was given on the share list of Monday that [etc.].
1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 19 In all the great European share-marts there is a general executive organization.
1955 Times 17 May 18/4 Not inconsiderable profits have been made from time to time in sharedealing.
1982 Financial Times 16 Mar. 23/2 The share purchases, made over a four-day period, triggered an investigation by the Panel.
2021 Irish Times (Nexis) 31 Dec. 3 The proceeds from Bank of Ireland share sales since June has brought the total that taxpayers have recovered from the lender..to about €6.2 billion.
b.
share account n. a financial account consisting of or relating to shares owned; (now) spec. (a) British a building society deposit account with no fixed investment period that confers a share of ownership in the society; (b) U.S. an account with a credit union that pays dividends rather than interest.
ΚΠ
1810 Satirist May 477 They had proofs that this deficiency did not arise from any error in the share account.
1910 Financial Times 15 Nov. 5/1 The action brought by Messrs. Paul K. Schweder and Co., a firm of London stockbrokers, for balance of a share account from Messrs. Walton and Hemingway, stockbrokers, of Halifax.
1989 Which? Sept. 448/2 The Halifax building society has a convenient branch, which is why they opened a paid-up share account.
2016 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 19 June Commencing June 22, an individual can gain membership in BECU without having a funded share account.
share bonus n. (originally) a payment made by a company to its shareholders in addition to the usual share dividend; (now often) a bonus paid to someone in the form of shares in a company, esp. a salary bonus paid in this way to an executive of the company.
ΚΠ
1861 Glasgow Herald 17 July 3/4 So as to pay a small dividend to our share bonus.
1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 8/4 A share bonus of 50 per cent. was provided on account of the year 1917–18.
1984 Daily Mail 21 Nov. 23 (advt.) If you buy shares under the offer, you may be eligible to receive free of charge either bill vouchers, for use in paying your British Telecom telephone bill, or a share bonus.
2021 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Dec. 65 Two private equity bosses have been handed share bonuses that could be worth $1bn (£757m) each.
share broker n. a broker who buys and sells shares on behalf of clients; cf. stockbroker n.
ΚΠ
1819 Times 7 Apr. (advt.) Mr. Wells, Stock and Share-broker, 24. Cornhill.
1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 703/2 ‘Bucket shop’ means the business of a sham share broker who gambles with his customers on the rise or fall in the prices of stock exchange securities without acquiring these securities at all.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 July 59/2 Online share broker E*Trade and Macquarie Equities recently joined the market in CFDs.
share capital n. that part of the capital of a company received from its owners in return for shares; the authorized or nominal value of a company’s shares.
ΚΠ
1833 Bristol Mercury 5 Oct. I suspect that their interest upon borrowed capital and extraordinary expenses disables them from dividing more than 8l. per share (on the share capital of 750,000l.).
1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 5/1 The whole of the share capital will stand in the name of five voting trustees.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 13/7 Here is a shocking statistic: only 21 per cent of British Airways' share capital was voted at the company's annual meeting, when five directors, including the new chief executive, were up for election.
share certificate n. a written document issued by a company or other corporation to a shareholder as proof of ownership of the number of shares indicated.Also called a stock certificate (see stock certificate n.).
ΚΠ
1825 Times 12 Aug. 1/2 The time for signing the Deed of Settlement, exchanging Scrip for Share Certificates, and making the second payment, has been enlarged until the 23d instant.
1935 Times 11 Sept. 14/5 Sentenced..yesterday to five years' penal servitude on pleading ‘Guilty’ to forging share certificates.
2019 Financial Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. (Money section) 11 The Companies Act 2006 prohibits a share certificate from being issued before your details are included in the register of members (at which point you are legally a shareholder).
share dividend n. a sum of money paid regularly (typically annually) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits or reserves; cf. dividend n. 2.
ΚΠ
1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Sept. 324 The share dividends of the Chesire Railroad Company..shall amount to the sum of five dollars annually on each share of the preferred stock of said company.
1991 Investors Chron. 16 Aug. 20/3 Investors accept a lower dividend yield on shares than they do on bonds because they expect share dividends to grow.
2011 Financial Times 10 June 6/6 Egypt has dropped plans for a tax on share dividends unveiled last week in the draft budget.
share draft n. U.S. (in a credit union) a written order used to access funds in an individual account; often as a modifier, esp. in share-draft account.
ΚΠ
1974 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 8 Nov. 8/3 A progress report will be given on credit unions located in Michigan, California, and Georgia which are participating in a pilot share draft program.
1979 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 25 Apr. 2 The NCUA countered that share drafts benefit consumers by increasing competition in the financial industry, and furthermore, Congress never explicitly outlawed share-draft accounts.
2017 Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier 28 Feb. c5/1 Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid bond, certified check, cashier's check or a Certified Share Draft in a separate sealed envelope.
share index n. an index of the value or performance of a stock market formed by selecting a number of prominent shares traded on a stock exchange and comparing the value of these shares with their value on a stated date in the base year.Also called a share price index (see share price index n.).
ΚΠ
1930 Financial News 13 Aug. 1/5 (heading) Industrial Share Index.
2008 Guardian 9 Sept. 8/1 An initial 300-point gain on Wall Street's main share index was pared back later in the day.
share option n. a right to buy or sell a particular share at a specified price on or before a particular date; esp. a benefit in the form of an option given by a company to an employee to buy shares in the company at a discount or at a stated fixed price; cf. option n. 6a.
ΚΠ
1899 Statist 4 Feb. 191/1 £6,875..represents profits made during 1895 on share options.
1922 Engin. & Mining Jrnl.-Press 24 June 1117/1 The total cost to Candelaria will be $400,000... A share option was also given.
1989 A. Lorenz Fighting Chance iii. 97 Both at Weir and T&N, he was well incentivized for his work..through share options rather than basic salary.
2006 Independent 30 May 28/4 Any share options are not exercisable before February 2007 at the very earliest.
shareowner n. a person who owns shares in a company or other jointly owned property or venture; = shareholder n.
ΚΠ
1804 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 21 Nov. All interest arising from stock..and all other profits, shall be divided semi-annually..among all the share owners.
1968 Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 89/1 Competitors, suppliers, customers, shareowners, bankers and the government.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Apr. 29/3 The banks and their shareowners may have taken big losses in the crisis, but the bankers..mostly made out pretty well, thanks in large part to taxpayer assistance.
share ownership n. the owning of shares; the fact or state of being a shareholder; cf. shareowner n., shareholdership n.
ΚΠ
1876 Road (N.Y.) 15 Jan. 370/2 The Pennsylvania Company..through majority share ownership of the Pittsburgh, Cin. and St. L. R. W. Co. also controls 1388 miles of roads.
1999 Managing for Value: Cadbury Schweppes Ann. Rep. 1998 11 We also promote employee shareownership through a variety of schemes.
2006 Independent 11 Nov. (Save & Spend section) 3/3 Certificated trading (slower and more expensive to trade but offering the benefits of direct share ownership).
share premium n. the amount by which the price at which a share was issued exceeds the nominal value of the share; frequently as a modifier, esp. in share premium account.Share premiums received by a company must be credited to a share premium account, which can only be used for a number of specified purposes, not including the payment of dividends to shareholders.
ΚΠ
1861 Carlisle Jrnl. 19 Apr. (Suppl.) 9/7 He pointed to the decrease in the share premium of the London and North Western Railway from this cause.
1871 Jrnl. Gas Lighting, Water Supply, & Sanitary Improvem. 17 Jan. 45/2 The consideration to be paid is perpetual annuities to the shareholders to the amount of £1400 per annum,..and the immediate payment of the amount to the credit of the reserve-fund and share premium account.
1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 14/2 The discount on this issue has been entirely written off from share premium and capital reserve accounts.
2021 MT Newswires Live Briefs (Nexis) 25 Feb. We think the share premium is set to come down as its revenue mix now incorporates significant gas business exposure.
2021 Sun (Nexis) 21 Nov. 60 A statement from Quantuma, reveals the Rams' £83m debt does not include a further £153m due to the share premium account, a ‘soft loan’ from Morris who is set to write off that loss.
share ramping n. the action of attempting to influence the share price of a company in order to profit from a resulting change in the price, e.g. buying shares in a company when they are at a low price before attempting to raise the price by starting a rumour that the company is being taken over.Share ramping is considered unethical and is typically against the regulations of financial markets.
ΚΠ
1972 Times 27 Sept. (Personal Finance section) ii/7 Takeovers, and more especially rumours of them, can prove a minefield with the increasing frequency of share ramping in recent months.
2016 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Sept. A case of alleged share ramping on AIM has been passed to the FCA in the latest scandal for London's junior market.
share split n. the division of a company's stock into multiple new shares according to a specified ratio.A share split does not affect the total value of the company's stock and is typically undertaken to reduce the price and increase the liquidity of the shares.Also called a stock split (see stock split n.).
ΚΠ
1924 Financial Times 22 Jan. 5/5 (headline) American Can proposal. Share-split and new dividend basis.
1987 Reyd Rev. (Reyd Services Ltd.) 3 July 2/2 The original public stock issue..was at $7.50 (adjusted for a share split).
2007 Times 19 Jan. 57/1 The group's two-for-one share split, effective yesterday, would improve liquidity and allow management to deliver on a promise to boost cash returns in 2007.
share tipping n. chiefly British the action or practice of predicting or giving expert advice about shares which are likely to prove successful investments; frequently as a modifier.Often viewed as having the potential to overlap with illegal or unethical promotion of shares; cf. share pushing n., share ramping n.
ΚΠ
1928 Financial Times 8 June 1/7 A modern deterrent of honest individual effort is the recent outbreak of stock and share tipping in the various daily newspapers.
1973 Times 30 Oct. 23/2 Union officials hasten to disclaim any notion that they are running a new share tipping service which will compete with established brokers.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 28 Feb. Insider dealing legislation still applies but this does not affect share-tipping as no inside knowledge usually applies.
share warrant n. a warrant entitling the bearer to the specified number of shares in a company.Distinguished from share certificates (see share certificate n.) by being transferable rather than being issued to a named shareholder.
ΚΠ
1850 Morning Chron. 17 Dec. 8/3 Share warrants may be quoted at 43s 6d to 44s for all numbers.
1910 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 2/1 Share warrants to Bearer will be issued if desired.
2016 Financial Times 18 Oct. 18/1 Holders of share warrants to bearer who wish to stand or be represented at the annual general meeting must deposit their share warrant at the office of Capita Asset Services.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

sharen.3

Brit. /ʃɛː/, U.S. /ʃɛ(ə)r/
Forms:

α. Old English scaru, Old English scear- (inflected form), late Old English scær, early Middle English scheare, Middle English schar, Middle English schare, Middle English schayre, Middle English shaar, Middle English shar, Middle English shzare, Middle English–1500s shaare, Middle English– share, 1500s shayre; English regional 1900s shar (Bedfordshire); Scottish pre-1700 schaire.

β. Middle English cher, Middle English scher, Middle English schyre (perhaps transmission error), Middle English sheer, Middle English sher, Middle English shere, Middle English ssere, Middle English–1500s schere, 1700s–1800s shear; Scottish pre-1700 schear, pre-1700 scheir, pre-1700 scheire, pre-1700 schere, pre-1700 scheyre.

γ. Middle English schore.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: share n.2
Etymology: Originally the same word as share n.2, subsequently partially distinguished in form (compare the β. forms).In the β. and γ. forms probably influenced by forms of ultimately related shear v. (compare also shear n.1). See discussion at share n.2
Now historical and rare.
The inguinal region (groin) or pubic region of the body. Occasionally also: †the part of the pelvis consisting of the two pubic bones (cf. share-bone n.) (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > groin or crotch > [noun]
shareeOE
liskc1175
forchure13..
cleftc1325
fouchc1330
grainsa1400
swange?a1400
groin14..
thigh-holec1425
twist1572
crotcha1592
fork1608
cleaving1632
inguen1679
crutch-
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > pubis
shareeOE
os pectinisa1400
pecten?a1425
share-bone?c1425
os pubis1578
pubis1578
pubes1713
pubic bone1833
prepubis1888
α.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxii. 232 Lege [poultices] ofer þa scare oþ þone nafolan & ofer þa lendeno oþ þone bæcþearm.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xl. 324 Þa gelamp hit on þam mancwealme..þæt he wearð drepen in þa sceare [L. percussus in inguine] & þy wæs gelæded to deaþe.
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 148 Le penul [glossed] the schore [a1325 Cambr. shzare].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lv. 409 Þe ache is in [emended in ed. to aboute] þe schare and þe twist bitwene þe genetras.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 448 Schore, privy parte of a mann, pubes.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. E.ii From the mydryff to the flankes or shaare.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxiv. 36 Layd to the botches..about the share or priuie members [it] preuayleth much against the same.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xxi. 44 If the Share and parts thereabouts be anointed therewith.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 22 These Bones, viz. the Share or Pubes.
1725 J. Sharp Compl. Midwife's Compan. (ed. 4) i. xii. 36 It [sc. the Clitoris] is a small exuberation in the upper, forward, and middle part of the share, in the top of the greater slit where the wings end.
1815 T. Richards Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thes. (ed. 2) 245/2 Y Weryd, the same as Gwerddyr, the groin or share, perhaps because of the hair which are [sic] like moss.
1994 F. H. Ellis in Compl. Wks. J. Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Notes 360 The os pubis was called the share bone, and the share was the groin.
β. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 199 Ha þurch sticden him dun iþe schere.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings ii. 23 Þanne Abnerr..smoot hym in þe shere [a1425 L.V. schar].c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xii. viii. f. 177v/2 This Edrik..straik hym throw ye scheir in his bowellis.1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 27 Thairwt I schot be neth hir scheir, deip to þe stanis.

Compounds

† share artery n. Obsolete rare an artery of the inguinal or pubic region of the body (perhaps the internal or external iliac artery).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > artery > [noun] > specific artery
arterial vein?c1425
adorthy1525
subethal1525
temporal?1541
veiny artery1543
share artery1545
aorta1594
cephalic artery1599
subclavia1615
venous artery1650
subclavicular1656
pulmonary1707
cœliac artery or axis1713
renal1721
radial1723
carotid1741
ranine1753
femoral1754
hypogastric1774
iliac1782
pudical1803
articular1808
pudic1824
anonyma1832
internal mammary1835–6
iliac artery1840
transverse artery1842
innominate artery1866
innominate1879
thyroid axis1881
hyoid1883
medicerebral1889
coronary1893
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. I.iiii The share artyres.
1837 A. Tennant Veg. Materia Medica 64 The front, or share artery, which is sometimes a branch of the sciatic artery; it proceeds out of the pelvis, through the sciatic notch.
share-bone n. the pubic bone (anterior bone of the pelvis), or the part of the pelvis consisting of the two pubic bones.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > pubis
shareeOE
os pectinisa1400
pecten?a1425
share-bone?c1425
os pubis1578
pubis1578
pubes1713
pubic bone1833
prepubis1888
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 66 (MED) Þe flank bone in þe ouer partie, in þe former partie þe schere bone [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. Os, i. bone pectinis or pubis], in þe myddel þe þigh bone.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Iiv These two bones..ioyneth to ye share before, and therfore are they called the share bones.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 935 The bone without a name..hath three parts; the Hip, the Hanches and the Sharebones.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 423 A Sensation of Weight in the Lower Belly, under the Shear-Bone.
1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 5 The smallest of the three divisions of the os innominatum is the os Pubis, Pecten, or Share Bone, situated anteriorly.
2009 R. Woods Death before Birth v. 113 Of the 19 live births in which the infant and mother survived, the following reasons were given for calling in Mrs. Stone: infant stuck on the share-bone (pubic bone, anterior section of pelvis) 5; infant ‘came wrong’ 6 [etc.].
sharewort n. any of several plants once used for the treatment of buboes or other inflammations in the groin; esp. Aster trifolium and certain other members of the family Asteraceae.Now only in lists of alternative names for these plants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > [noun]
smearwortc725
evenlesteneOE
hovec1000
hindheala1300
vareworta1300
falcc1310
holwort1350
spigurnela1400
rush?a1425
buck's tonguec1450
lich-walec1450
lich-wortc1450
vine-bind1483
finter-fanter?a1500
heartwood1525
wake-wort1530
Our Lady's gloves1538
bacchar1551
hog's snout1559
centron1570
lady's glove1575
sharewort1578
kite's-foot1580
Magdalene1589
astrophel1591
eileber1597
exan1597
blue butterflower1599
bybbey1600
oenothera1601
rhodora1601
shamefaced1605
mouse-foot1607
Byzantine1621
popinjay1629
priest's bonnet1685
Indian weed1687
foal-bit1706
shepherd's bodkin1706
bottle-head1714
walking leaf1718
French apple1736
bugleweed1771
night-weed1810
beggar-weed1878
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxiv. 36 This herbe [sc. Aster Atticus] is called..in English Sharewurte or Sterrewurte.
1682 J. Church Compend. Enchiridion 11 Inguinalis Aster Sharewort. It helps Inflamations in the Grine and Fundament.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 204 Sharewort, L. inguinalis, from being supposed to cure diseases of the share or groin, called buboes.
1905 Country-side 9 Sept. 268/2 In August and September every marsh near the sea is covered with bluish stars of the wild Michaelmas daisy, or sea aster, credited long ago with healing powers, and known as blue chamomile,..and sharewort.
2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 125/2 Aster... sharewort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

† sharev.1

Forms: 1500s–1700s share, 1600s shayre.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: shear v.
Etymology: Variant of shear v.In some instances related to ploughing (compare quot. 1614 at sense 2) perhaps influenced by share n.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To cut (something) off. Also with away, off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off
becarveOE
carvec1000
hewc1000
shredc1275
cuta1300
chapc1325
cleavec1330
off-shearc1330
withscore1340
to cut offc1380
colea1400
slivea1400
to score awayc1400
abscisea1500
discidea1513
sharea1529
off-trenchc1530
off-hewc1540
pare1549
detrench1553
slice?1560
detrunk1566
sneck1578
resect1579
shred1580
curtail1594
off-chop1594
lop?1602
disbranch1608
abscind1610
snip1611
circumcise1613
desecate1623
discerpa1628
amputate1638
absciss1639
prescind1640
notch1820
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biiii Woo is that purse that ye shall share.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q For with his trenchant blade at the next blow Halfe of her shield he shared quite away. View more context for this quotation
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 237 That lumpe..Which on a young colts forhead breeds,..Before the louing damme so share It with her teeth, and make it bare.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 98 Pieces of Rose or other Leaves which she [sc. the Bee] shares off with her mouth.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 210 When ev'ry Art has fail'd the captive Fox Has shar'd the wounded Joint, and with a Limb Compounded for his Life.
2. transitive. To cut (something) into pieces; to break (something) apart by cutting; to cut up, divide.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut to pieces
to-carvec950
forhewa1000
forcarveOE
to-hackc1000
to-hewc1000
to-slivec1050
to-brittenc1175
shredc1275
to-snedc1275
to-race1297
smitec1300
dismember1303
hewa1382
hew1382
to-cut1382
forcutc1386
brit?a1400
splatc1400
to-shredc1405
upshear1430
detrench1470
dispiece1477
thrusche1483
till-hew1487
despiecea1492
rip1530
share?1566
hash1591
shamble1601
becut1630
betrench1656
mincemeat1861
becarve1863
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)]
to-cleavec888
cleavea1100
forcleavec1290
shidec1315
rivec1330
sheara1340
carvec1374
slivea1400
thrusche1483
porfend1490
splet1530
share?1566
spleet1585
splint1591
split1595
diverberate1609
fissure1656
spall1841
balkanize1942
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)]
cutc1300
shed13..
tamec1400
to-carvec1400
discidea1513
share?1566
shred?1566
dissect1608
slit1638
disecta1690
sned1889
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces
snithec725
chop?a1400
culpec1430
gobbonc1440
gobbeta1450
culpon1508
to cut up1574
share1577
junk1776
?1566 J. Phillip Commodye Pacient & Meeke Grissill sig. E.iiiiv Cease for I will share with sword, the Infants corpes by force.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 120 Some vse to geue them [sc. horses] Aples shared in peeces.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 232 Where now the cultor shares the soyle, And plough-men daily eare and toyle.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 326 The sword..deep entring shar'd All his right side. View more context for this quotation
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

sharev.2

Brit. /ʃɛː/, U.S. /ʃɛ(ə)r/
Forms: 1500s shaire, 1500s shayre, 1500s– share; also Scottish pre-1700 schair, pre-1700 shair.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: share n.2
Etymology: < share n.2
1.
a. intransitive. With in. To take a part or share in an action, circumstance, or situation; to have a part in or portion of something in common with others; to partake in; (now often) spec. to contribute to the success of an activity, project, etc.Sometimes, esp. in early use, with the other sharers indicated in a prepositional phrase introduced by with (as in quot. 1598).Occasionally with the prepositional phrase introduced by in omitted (because contextually understood); see, e.g., quot. 1602.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] > participate
common1357
to take partc1384
communea1393
participe1511
participate1531
join1560
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to bear a part1596
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to join in1785
to be in it1819
to stand in1858
to get into (also in on) the act1947
(to be) in on the act1951
to muck in1952
to opt in1966
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > participate with > participate in
enterparta1413
to be art and part in (also of)1442
to have art or (and) part ina1500
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to have (also take, etc.) a share in1572
to have a hand in1583
fellow1596
share1600
to contribute to (also for) or to do1605
to fall in1651
join1716
to opt into1968
1570 G. Fenton tr. J. de Serres Disc. Ciuile Warres Fraunce i. 40 She could do no lesse than to imparte her selfe and sonne, with the said consociacion, and to share with them in their generall fortunes.
a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Eivv As sure as Israels God giues Dauid life, What place or perill shall containe the King, The same will Ithay share in life and death.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 63 I am the Prince of Wales, and thinke not Percy To share with me in glory any more. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 15 Didst thou not share? hadst thou not fifteene pence?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 40 I commend your paines, And euery one shall share i'th' gaines. View more context for this quotation
1669 N. Morton New-Englands Mem. (1910) 35 In which sickness the seamen shared also deeply, and many died.
1709 F. Atterbury Serm. St. Brigit's 24 We cannot, surely, think it beneath us, to share with those glorious Beings, in such an Administration!
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 281 They had shared with him in all his former dangers and distresses.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 156 Was it not enough..that he shared, with the rest of the nation, in the blessings of that mild government of which he had long been the foe?
1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 53 The king would not share in the expense of raising opposition to the candidature of the electoral prince of Saxony.
1986 J. Urquhart Whirlpool (1990) 209 She told Maud that in Ireland it would be dried and cut up into pieces so that each member of the family might share in the luck.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Apr. b2/6 General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman agreed to share in the construction of three of the Navy's multibillion-dollar stealth destroyers.
†b. intransitive. With of. To have a portion or lot in common with others; to partake in. Also occasionally: to possess a particular quality or characteristic in common with someone else (cf. sense 2c). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (transitive)]
dealOE
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to take share of (something)1678
1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Accomplishm. Prophecies iv. 271 It is his spirituall power..which compels men to repaire from all quarters to Rome, for to share of the spirituall liberalities of his Holinesse.
1649 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Use of Passions 6 The one and the other shares of servitude.
1720 Humourist 71 Those deplorable Wretches, who, as they share of our Likeness and Nature, ought to share of our Compassion.
1736 L. Welsted Scheme & Conduct Providence vii. 69 Any other people..must have shar'd, more or less, of the same frailty.
1848 J. Brown Expository Disc. First Epist. Peter III. i. xxi. 139 I witnessed and shared of his sufferings.
1894 K. F. Kroeker tr. W. Müller in Cent. German Lyrics 41 Ah well, they have shared of joy and of sorrow.
†c. intransitive. With with. Of one thing: to be equal to another; to be the match or fitting counterpart of. Obsolete.Probably an isolated poetic use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)]
evenOE
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to make odds evena1616
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a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 61 Succeed thy father In manners as in shape: thy blood and vertue Contend for Empire in thee, and thy goodnesse Share with thy birth-right. View more context for this quotation
2.
a. transitive. To have a part or portion of (something, frequently food or drink) along with one or more other people; to have a share of. Also occasionally intransitive.
ΚΠ
1576 G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard iii. 116 At dinner time dame Barbaras mayde, was to Alberto sent, To share his lowance like his worke.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 95 So shall you share all that he doth possesse. View more context for this quotation
a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Sloane 3150) f. 32v Lookeing downe I might perceive a white mowse, and a blacke mowse, shareinge the roote of the tree.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. x. Epigr. 43 Take my advise; Compound, and share the Prize.
1787 S. Hoole Edward i. xxiv. 14 Together had they shared their Christmas cake.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 3 He shares the frugal meal with those he loves.
1884 Tamworth Herald 16 Aug. 8/1 J. Hewitt contributed no fewer than six first prize takers, C. Parnell and H. Pickering sharing the remainder.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August i. 25 ‘I'd take it kind for you to share.’ ‘I wouldn't care to. You go ahead and eat.’
1940 M. Dickens Mariana (1999) iii. 88 They shared a slab of chocolate cake.
1991 Times 16 Apr. 36/7 He eagled the 13th and 15th to share the lead with Woosnam.
2021 L. Anderson Killing Tide (e-book ed.) xxiii The back entrance was occupied by a wee gang of teenagers in the thirteen-to-fifteen age group sharing a couple of bottles of vodka.
b. transitive. To engage in or be part of (an action, activity, etc.) together with others; to bear or endure (a fate, ordeal, responsibility, etc.) in common with others.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > participate with > participate in
enterparta1413
to be art and part in (also of)1442
to have art or (and) part ina1500
enjoin1546
share1570
to have (also take, etc.) a share in1572
to have a hand in1583
fellow1596
share1600
to contribute to (also for) or to do1605
to fall in1651
join1716
to opt into1968
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 199 Is all the counsell that we two haue shar'd, The sisters vowes,..O, is all forgot?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 94 A man that all his time, Hath..Shar'd dangers with you. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour v. ii. 62 I am content in Death to share your Fate.
1768 T. Gray Fatal Sisters in Poems 81 Where our Friends the conflict share.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxix. 251 How could we, with our means, live at all, but for a friend to share expenses?
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 267 The bribery was equally shared between both parties.
1939 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 29 Apr. 11/5 She could not tell him how she felt about it and share his triumph with him.
1988 R. E. Clements Jeremiah i. 70 He nevertheless remains bound up with them and must share their fate.
2021 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 Dec. a7 Front-line countries including Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Malta have long called for other countries to share responsibility for migrants crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa.
c. transitive. To have the same (view, feelings, etc.) about something as someone else; to possess (a quality) in common with others.
ΚΠ
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 257 That love of admiration which all pretty women share less or more.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §3. 177 He [sc. Edward I] shared to the full his people's love of hard fighting.
1895 Law Times 100 4/1 Lord Macnaghten's satisfaction with things as they are will not be shared by anyone.
1953 Economist 26 Sept. 870/2 The colleagues he left behind..used to share his mistrust of input-output.
2001 Observer 12 Aug. (Review section) 15/3 Adams also shared with Carroll a love of pataphysical nonsense.
2005 G. Sheffield & J. Bourne in D. Haig War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 46 Haig was also somewhat promiscuous in his use of exclamation marks, a trait shared by many of his contemporaries.
3.
a.
(a) transitive. To divide (something) up and distribute the shares or portions; to apportion, esp. fairly or equally. Now commonly (outside North America) in to share out (see sense 3a(b)).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > divide and share out
dealc1000
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share1577
to share out1583
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cut1928
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 2v/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I These fiue perceiuing that the countrey was not sufficiently peopled, were agreed, as it were, to cast lottes, and to share the whole realme betwene themselues.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 641 He..shared the Country among his companions.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. ii. 23 Good Fellowes all, The latest of my wealth Ile share among'st you. View more context for this quotation
1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 21 Suppose I share my Fortune equally between my own Children, and a Stranger, whom I take into my Protection; will that be a Method to unite them?
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 160 We shar'd all the Provisions among the Company.
1863 J. M. Neale Mediæval Hymns (ed. 2) 197 Midst his people thus the Clerk Scripture nurture shareth.
1933 J. S. Fletcher Murder of Only Witness xxix. 250 The proceeds were to be equally shared.
2000 C. Kelly Someone like You (2002) v. 55 Hannah had an extra bottle of water in her small backpack and she shared it between the three of them.
(b) transitive. to share out: to divide (something) up and distribute the shares or portions; to apportion, esp. fairly or equally. Cf. sense 3a(a).Not used in North America.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > divide and share out
dealc1000
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1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. N2v All the rest of the countrey was in peace & shared out amongst them.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. iv. 321 Those Immortal inheritances which he shares out amongst his Spiritual Sons and Subjects in Heaven.
1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 52 The Senate shares that Service out among the several Governments.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xiii. 314 The landed property was gradually shared out into more hands.
1898 E. W. Brabrook Provident Societies 57 The funds..diminish so rapidly that the old men share out what there is and close the society.
1985 J. Kelman Chancer (1987) 8 The older one held up the two bottles and the other one was carrying the crisps. Tammas nodded. Away ben and share it out, he said.
2010 N. MacGregor Hist. World in 100 Objects lxv. 417 Within a century of the arrival of the Spanish in 1492 most of the Taino died of European diseases and their land was shared out among the European conquerors.
b. transitive. To divide or break up (something) into parts, esp. so that it may be distributed between a number of people. rare.In early use strongly influenced by share v.1; cf. share n.2 3b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares
share1595
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into parcels or portions
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share1595
parcellize1606
cantle1607
cantonize1608
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parcellate1927
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B First into many parts his streame he shar'd.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 363 I shar'd the Island into Parts with 'em.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. v. 74 A thin oaten cake, shared into fragments.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 172 Take one day; share it into sections; to each section apportion its task.
2020 S. Brownlie Disc. Memory & Refugees 93 The continent was shared into parts ‘like a cake’.
c. transitive. To give to someone (an apportioned share of something). Now only in to share out. archaic and rare in later use.With the person indicated in a prepositional phrase introduced by to, unto, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot > to a person as his share
britOE
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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. viii. sig. G7 And euery day for guerdon of her song, He part of his small feast to her would share . View more context for this quotation
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 13 In Wastrell, it is lawfull for any man to make triall of his fortune that way, prouided, that hee acknowledge the Lordes right, by sharing out vnto him a certaine part, which they can toll.
1614 J. Robinson Of Relig. Communion 29 The Arch-Byshops, & Byshops share out vnto the parrish Preistes in theyr ordination a part of theyr Charg, to wit, so much as concerns the ordinary service of the parrish.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vi. xxxii. 72 He all in all..Does share to each his due, and equall dole impart.
1723 Full & Exact Acct. Tryal Pyrates 40 He owned he had Shirt, Jacket, Coat and Breeches shared to him on Board the Brigantine at Calabar.
1852 D. W. Turner tr. Pindar Odes 135 If in thy brother's behalf thou contendest, and art minded to share out to him an equal lot of all thou hast.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona vi. 62 And here I am with my foot in the stirrup again and some of the responsibility shared into my hand of prosecuting King George's enemies.
2010 G. Coleby Knocking on Moonlit Door (e-book, accessed 3 Jan. 2022) vi. 103 They had kept in touch through the ups and downs that life had to share out to them.
†d. transitive. With plural subject. Of a group of people: to divide and apportion (something) amongst themselves. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (transitive)] > divide and share
share1597
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (intransitive)] > divide and share > and each take a portion
share1597
split1674
cut1928
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > and each take a portion
share1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 159 You wrangling Pyrats that fall out, In sharing that which you haue pild from me. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iii. 6 Come my maisters, let vs share and then to horse. View more context for this quotation
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 106 The two thousand Citizens, whom the Athenians sent to Samus, to share the land by lots.
†e. transitive (reflexive). To divide one's devotion, attention, time, etc., between (two different objects). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (reflexive)] > share one's service or devotion
share1656
1656 W. Guild Sealed Bk. Opened 57 The Saints in heaven ascribe their salvation only to God and Christ without sharing themselves.
1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 164 Solomon had been sharing himself betwixt God and idols.
1683 F. Spence tr. T. de La Chétardie Instr. for Young Nobleman 78 Who proclaims a Favour he has done, does much lessen the merit of it, because he shows by his Indiscretion, that he shared himself between his Vanity and his Friend.
†4.
a. transitive. With from. To take or acquire (something) from someone else; esp. to gain (something) at another's expense. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by sacrifice or suffering
buyc1175
purchasea1450
share1591
1591 G. B. A. F. tr. Discouery Subtiltie & Wisedome Italians xxiv. 33 The gold that they share from other people of Christendome.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 360 What glory our Achilles shares from Hector. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iii. 32 I would not loose so great an Honor, As one man more me thinkes would share from me, For the best hope I haue. View more context for this quotation
1688 J. Dryden Britannia Rediviva 9 Mildness he shares from both his Parents blood.
b. transitive. poetic. To receive or possess (an allotted part or portion of something); to take or receive as one's share. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (transitive)] > have as one's share
sort1474
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 222 But if I thriue, the gaine of my attempt, The least of you, shall share his part thereof. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvii. sig. D2v An other time mine eye is my hearts guest, And in his thoughts of loue doth share a part. View more context for this quotation
1618 S. Rowlands Sacred Memorie (1876) 37 Who seeing now her sorrowes cause to liue, Had such a fulnesse of a ioyfull heart, That neuer woman sharde a greater part.
5.
a. transitive. To allow another person to use or have some of (something that one possesses); to give some of (what one has) to someone else. Also intransitive.Frequently with the other person indicated in a prepositional phrase introduced by with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > divide into shares > give a share of
partc1330
participate1531
partake1561
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to give (a person) a show of1788
1592 Arden of Feversham ii. i. 35 Were it not that I see more company comming down the hill, I would be fellowes with you once more, and share Crownes with you to.
1629 J. Gaule Panegyrick 7 in Practique Theories Christs Predict. To share the Honour with him, and stakes in the Prayse.
1636 R. Freeman tr. Seneca Shortn. Life (1663) 4 To share his money no man can abide; Their lives 'twixt many all men will divide.
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 419 Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; Ah more than share it! give me all thy grief.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 149 These had a power of sharing their grants to inferior tenants.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 352 Cyclops. Should I not share this liquor with my brothers? Ulysses. Keep it yourself, and be more honoured so.
1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf xxiii. 297 The natives had only brought enough [water] for themselves..which, however, they generously shared with us.
1990 M. Armstrong Agviq viii.105 If they were to survive beyond when the store food ran out, they had to learn to share.
2018 F. Cantú Line becomes River 172 He ate the same thing each morning.., and every morning he offered to share it with me.
†b. transitive. To cause (one thing) to share its place with another. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 12 A scorching clime, And toil, had done the work of time, Roughened the brow, the temples bared, And sable hairs with silver shared.
6.
a. transitive. To occupy or make use of (something) jointly with others; to use at the same time as, or in turns with, someone else. Also intransitive.Also occasionally, esp. in earlier use, figurative (e.g. quot. 1743).
ΚΠ
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. 65 So strange a death, this stake with thee to share.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. viii. 222 If thou refuse to share a Bed with me; Wee'l never part, Ile share a Crosse with Thee.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Longing the common Light again to share . View more context for this quotation
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 8 We wear the Chains of Pleasure, and of Pride; These share the Man; and these distract him too.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 283 She quitted the sofa she had been unwillingly sharing with the self-pleased beau.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 25 I shared..a cabin with a captain who had been a whaler for forty years.
1940 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Provinc. Lady in Wartime 146 Old Mrs. W.-G. is more aggravating than ever, and Aunt Blanche is well out of sharing a flat with her.
1981 ‘M. Underwood’ Double Jeopardy xiv. 115 Rosa..glanced round the room. ‘It reminds me of the days when I used to share,’ she said. ‘Except there were five of us.’
1999 J. Cassidy Street Life 22 I stayed in a flat with two bedrooms so I only had to share a bathroom and kitchen with one other person.
2018 G. J. Morgan Her Amer. Classic xvi. 100 We could always share? It's a pretty big bed.
2022 Express Online (Nexis) 2 Jan. A sitcom about a group of retired women sharing a house in Miami.
b. transitive. Chemistry. Of an atom, orbital, etc.: to hold (one or more electrons) in common with another atom or orbital, so as to form a covalent bond.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical bonding > form a chemical bond [verb (transitive)] > share electron(s) in covalent bond
share1914
1914 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 36 1659 Valency is the property, or power, which an atom possesses of sharing a certain number of electrons with one or more other atoms.
1964 J. W. Linnett Electronic Struct. Molecules ii. 29 The two electrons may be regarded as being shared between the 1s orbital of the hydrogen and one of the 2p orbitals of the fluorine.
2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) xix. 343 Electrons can flow around inside this soft nucleic blob, and..the atoms share the electrons collectively.
7.
a. transitive. To make (information, data, etc.) available to others.
ΚΠ
1830 Common Sense 20 Nov. 1/1 We..publish from every free and useful work, sharing the information, amusement, and instruction, we may derive, with our fellow men, in order to ameliorate their condition.
1920 Washington Hist. Q. 11 239 He first began to gather information in accurate form for a single individual. He then thought of sharing the information with everybody and put it in form for publication as a book.
1976 Internat. Rev. Mod. Sociol. 6 89 (note) I am grateful to Dr. Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn of the Highgate Road Social Science Research Station, Berkeley, California, who shared their data with me.
2021 NewsBites (Nexis) 21 Dec. Student organisations..organise the data collection together with the School by sharing the link to the survey through for example newsletters.
b. transitive. To post or repost (a message, image, etc.) on a social media website or other online platform. Also intransitive.
ΚΠ
2007 @themarclevin 28 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 Nov. 2021) Why can't I share my flickr pics on facebook automatically?
2011 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 18 Mar. There are other great features in the app too, including..a full screen view where you can see who originally shared the post and access options for sharing the post yourself.
2021 @TheBlueHeel 16 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Nov. 2021) Follow @TheBlueHeel and don't forget to like and share!
8.
a. intransitive. To divulge or reveal something, esp. something personal or private; to talk about or make known one's feelings. Originally in the language of the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament and among evangelical Christians: to discuss one's moral dilemmas and failings or talk about one's beliefs, inner life, etc., openly amongst a small group. Cf. sharing n.2 2.Cf. Moral Rearmament n., Oxford Group n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > thoughts or feelings > confess
anyetec1175
confess1604
share1931
1931 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 13 Jan. (Second ed.) 8/2 (heading) Oxford Group active. Aberdonians wait to ‘share’. Quiet minutes of meditation.
1933 S. A. King Challenge to Oxf. Groups v. 48 What does the Bishop think a man feels when he has ‘shared’ for ‘witness’ and finds that God has used that ‘sharing’ to bring a brother out of..bondage?
1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xiv. 111 She would, thought he, be able to share with another girl in a way she could not with him.
1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 19 I do believe you're trying to get me to ‘share’. And I never even guessed that you were a Grouper.
1978 J. Eareckson Tada Step Further (2001) ix. 101 A home..where I could really unburden my heart and where we could share and pray together!
1995 A. H. Ells Family Love 216 While one person shares, the other must actively listen.
b. transitive, To tell someone (something); spec. to divulge or reveal (something personal or private); to express or admit (one's feelings). In early use usually in the spec. sense, influenced by the use of the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament and evangelical Christians (see sense 8a).Frequently with audience or interlocutor specified in a prepositional phrase introduced by with, e.g. Would you like to share your story with the group?
ΚΠ
1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xvii. 135 I must say, I did annoy my father a bit by sharing with him a few things I'd thought about him.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xii. 205 One of their practices was to ‘share’ confessions of their sins.
1974 C. ten Boom Tramp for Lord (2011) ix. 66 I happened to meet a good brother in the Lord who shared that he had been called to go to Vietnam also.
1981 B. Paul Your Eyelids are growing Heavy (1982) ix. 121 She ‘shared’ with the group the fact that she'd begun to have severe bouts of depression.
2020 @TheElliotPage 1 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Dec. 2020) I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot.

Phrases

P1. to share (something) alone: to have sole possession of (something). Also to share alone in (something), in the same sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > own individually
to share (something) alone1614
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia x. 439 That glory we will share alone.
1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor v. ii. sig. K3 You shall not share alone The glorie of a deed that will endure To all posteritie.
1653 Ghost or Woman wears the Breeches iv. 29 Nor think Valerio to share alone in this.
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 218 That the Nobility might be counterpoised and might not share alone in all the Offices of State.
P2.
a. to share and share alike (formerly also like): to have or receive an equal share; to share fairly; to share something out. Also sometimes as a noun or adjectival phrase.Arising as a grammatical conversion of share and share alike at share n.2 Phrases 1a. Not in established use before the 19th cent.
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the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
1656 T. Larkham Disc. Paying of Tithes ii. 15 It is not so honourable a way as to share and share like in all sorts of blessings that God shall be pleased to bestow upon his people.
1825 Sunday Times 12 Nov. Their creditors may console themselves that they will have to share and share alike!
1841 T. B. Macaulay Lit. Copyright (1853) I. 286 In Kent the sons share and share alike.
1906 ‘M. Corelli’ Treasure of Heaven x I've no money—we all share and share alike in camp.
1963 M. Spiegel tr. S. Simon In Thicket 97 Socialists believe that, when the czar is deposed, Utopia will be ushered in, and men will share and share alike.
1989 Sports Illustr. 30 Oct. 90/3 Maulding was the grateful beneficiary of a share-and-share-alike mood when the players voted.
2021 Express & Star (Nexis) 10 July 30 I say I went for the prawns because Annabelle decided she liked them too so it became a case of share and share alike, so we all tucked in.
2021 @EugeneDumont1 13 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Nov. 2021) It is the Christian way to share and share alike, but the rich congress has only been thinking about themselves.
b. to share and share: short for to share and share alike. Now rare.
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1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. x. 113 You are welcome to share and share of what left.
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning i. vi And a pretty boy is always a help in a linen-draper's shop. He shall share and share with my own young folks.
1881 ‘E. Garrett’ Family Fortunes 19 ‘Whatever I have, I should like each to share and share,’ said Mr. Farquhar.
1954 National 4-H Club News (U.S.) Apr. 23/3 It is to be hoped that everyone out of the fulness of his heart will be willing..to share and share with the thousands who will never come to Congress.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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