1. a thin slice or fragment, especially of bread or cheese
Usage: archaic or dialectal
2. a wooden stopper or bung used to seal a cask or barrel
Usage: brewing; cooperage

Examples

• The old baker cut a thin shive of bread for the child.
• She offered him a shive of aged cheddar from the wheel.
• The cooper fitted a new shive into the wine barrel.
• The wooden shive kept the ale fresh in the cask.
• He carved shives of wood to use as barrel stoppers.