Flax Splinter Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "SHIVE" which means:

noun
• • 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.

An example sentence would be:

• • "He accidentally cut himself with a shive while chopping vegetables."
• • "The carpenter used a shive to split the wooden plank into smaller pieces."

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