SHIVES Synonyms

• wood in small pieces or splinters

• a piece broken off or cut off of something else

• a broken piece of a brittle artifact

• an incomplete piece

• break or cause to break into pieces

• a broken piece of a brittle artifact

• a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal

• a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

• divide into slivers or splinters

• break up into splinters or slivers

• form into slivers

• a desirable state

• very close and convivial

• a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg

• the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

• cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head

• cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill

• the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole

• lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

• a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball

• hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

• the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something)

• come into rough contact with while moving

• push roughly

• press or force