▪ I. shide, n. Obs. exc. dial.
(ʃaɪd)
Forms: 1–3 scid, 3 sid, 4 szhide, (chide), 4–6 schide, schyde, 5 schyd(d, (schudde, chyde), 5–6 shyde, shyyd, 6 shyd, (shede), 6, 7 shid, 4– shide.
[OE. sc{iacu}d (? neut.) = OFris. skîd, mod.Flem. dial. schijd, OHG. scît neut. (MHG. schît, mod.G. scheit), ON. sk{iacu}ð neut. (Norw. ski: see ski):—OTeut. *skīđo-m, f. root *skī̆đ- to divide: see shed v.]
A piece of wood split off from timber, esp. such a piece used in building a fire, a block, billet; a board, plank, beam. As a quantity: Half a cubic foot of timber (see quot. for shide measure in b).
| c 725 Corpus Gloss. 1817 Scindulis: scidum. c 825 Epinal Gloss. 943. c 875 Erfurt Gloss. 943. c 1050 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 266/33 Incipit de Igne..Scindula, scid. c 1300 Havelok 917 Ful wel kan ich cleuen shides. 13.. K. Alis. 6421 Mouth they haveth gret, and wide, And a tonge as a schyde. c 1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 170 Les hasteles [glossed the chides, szhides] fetez alumer. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 160 And com to Noe Anon And bad him not lette Swiþe to schapen A schup of schides and Bordes. c 1425 Wyntoun Orig. Cron. iii. v. 776 A bale fyre off gret schyddys. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 446/1 Schyyd, or astelle (v.rr. schyd of a astel, schyde wode), teda. 1446 Churchw. Acc. Yatton (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 86 To I. Parker vor goyng to Thurbbewyll to helpe hewwe the schudde. Ibid. 88 Vor vyllyng of a chyde. 1470–73 in Rec. Andover 16 Paid for caryng a shide xij{supd}. c 1512 Regul. Northumbld. Househ. (1770) 72 The shedes to be maid of the said Hardwode to be in leinth a Yerde and in thikenes a Spanne. 1533 Hen. VIII in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 31 Item, every mornyng at our Woodeyarde, foure tall shyds and twoo fagotts. 1561 S. Wythers tr. Calvin's Treat. Relics C ij, And in som places ther are good great shydes [of the Cross]. 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 56 If the fire-man throw great shides of wood in the mouths of the Furnaces. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 262 Cutting every shid of tall wood four foot long beside the kerf, and the billet three foot four inches. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 241 Shides. The same as Shingles. 1793 Jrnls. Ho. Comm. 28 Mar. 516/2 A Quantity of Pollard Trees sufficient to make 1,200 Shides of Cleft Wood, containing Half a Foot each. |
b. attrib. and Comb., as shide-wood, shide-yard; shide-measure (see quot.); shide-wall, a rampart composed of piles.
| 1600 Hopton Baculum Geod. vi. xxxvii. 213 *Shide measure sheweth how many shides of timber is contained in each foote of length: for..a shide of timber is halfe a foote of timber. |
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 146/28 Uallum, *scidwealles eorðbyri. c 1205 Lay. 10354 Þe vfenen he makede scid wal. |
| c 1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxix, Schaftis in *shide wode thay shindre in schides. |
| c 1450 Godstow Reg. (1911) 422 The which lieth in *shideyerd in Oxenford. |
▪ II. † shide, v. Obs. rare.
Pa. pple. 4 ischyt.
[f. shide n.]
trans. To cleave, split.
| c 1315 Shoreham (E.E.T.S.) iv. 178 Þys manere senne nys nauȝt ones, Ac hys ischyt in þry, In þouȝt, in speche, in dede amys. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. iii. 48 With wegis schidit gan the birkis sound. |