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Schäbe — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cockroach noun A flat-bodied, fast-moving insect of the order Blattodea, notorious as a household pest.
  • shive noun A slice, especially of bread.

Senses

Schäbe is used for these senses in English:

  • shive A slice, especially of bread.
  • shive A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

shive — full definition

  1. noun A slice, especially of bread.
  2. noun A beam or plank of split wood.
  3. noun A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

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