sheave
‘a wheel or disk with a grooved rim, especially one used as a pulley, slice of bread’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.E. scifa < O.Nor. skifa ‘to cut, split’ < Proto-G. skif- < sheev < skei- < Tamil kappu
sheave
‘a wheel or disk with a grooved rim, especially one used as a pulley, slice of bread’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.E. scifa < O.Nor. skifa ‘to cut, split’ < Proto-G. skif- < sheev < skei- < Tamil kappu
Technical words derived from 'sheave'
rope sheave - கயிறு செலுத்து காடி சக்கரம்; hanging sheave - தொங்கு கப்பி; head sheave - முகப்பு பற்சக்கரக் கப்பி.
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'