Anagrams of: EEVISH

• A slice, especially of bread.

• A sheave.

• A beam or plank of split wood.

• A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

• A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

• A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.

• A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.

• (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

• A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).

• A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

• A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.

• a knife used as a weapon

• a teeming multitude

• a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees

• a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree

• store, like bees

• move together in a hive or as if in a hive

• gather into a hive

• a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

• examine in order to test suitability

• check and sort carefully

• separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements

• distinguish and separate out

• a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place

• (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

• the day before

• the period immediately before something

• the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

• move hurridly

• The name of the Latin-script letter V.

• Something with the shape of the letter V.

• The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played

• A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others