name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #17991)
noun: A slice, especially of bread.
noun: (obsolete) A sheave.
noun: A beam or plank of split wood.
noun: A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
noun: A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
noun: A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
noun: A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
noun: (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
noun: A surname.
noun: Alternative form of shiv [A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).]
noun: Alternative spelling of shiva [(Judaism) A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.]
