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SHARE, sb.1 and v.1 Bdf. Nrf. Wil. Also in form shar Bdf. [ʃeə(r).] 1. sb. In comp. Shar-hook, obs., part of a plough. Bdf. Shar-hook and holdfast, 2s. 6d., Batchelor Agric. (1813) 162. 2. The tooth of a fish-dart. Nrf. Yew fare likely ter strike a stone an' break a share, Emerson Wild Life (1890) 13. 3. pl. The crossbars of a harrow. Wil.1 4. v. With out: to plough up. Nrf. One [mole] will skim down the middle of a mangold balk on a hot day, and ‘share them out’ as cleanly as a plough would, the roots dying and withering, Emerson Birds (ed. 1895) 337. [OE. scear, a ploughshare [B.T.).]

SHARE, sb.2 Obs. or obsol. Midl. Lin. Som. Also in form shar Lin.1 n.Lin.1 1. Coarse grass used for thatching; a crop of grass. Lin.1, Som. (Hall.) e.Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). 2. Comp. (1) Share-grass, (a) a kind of coarse grass; cf. shear-grass, s.v. Shear, v. II. 1 (2); (b) the hairy sedge, Carex hirta; (2) Share-thack, see (1, a). (1, a) Lin. It makes a soil produce a crop of hay, which naturally would only feed rabbits by shar-grass, Marshall Review (1811) III. 163. (b) Midl. MARSHALL Rur. Econ. (1796) II. (2) n.Lin.1

SHARE, sb.3 Nhb.1 e.Dur.1 n.Yks.2 Also in form sharra n.Yks.2 [ʃēr.] Cow-dung. Cf. shard, sb.3

SHARE, sb.4 War. Brks. [ʃeə(r);] A short wooden sheath stuck in the waist-band, in which to rest one of the needles while knitting. War.2 War.4, s.War.1, Brks. (W.H.Y.) Cf. shear, sb.1 2.

SHARE, sb.5 w.Cy. [ʃeə(r).] The sycamore, Acer Pseudo-Platanus. (Hall.), (B. & H.)

SHARE, sb.6 Dev. A worthless woman. (Hall.)

SHARE, v.2 and sb.7 Sc. Irel. Nhb. Yks. Glo. Wil. Cor. Also in form shar w.Yks.1; preterite shore Glo.1 1. v. In phr. to share a staff, obs., to distribute blows. Edb. 'Gainst this the master is set fair, And vows bedeen, that he will share His staff amang them; and no spare Sic daft fool-folk, Har'st Rig (1794) 22, ed. 1801. 2. sb. In phr. (1) for one's share, for one's own part; as far as oneself is concerned; (2) to look for one's share, to go about begging. (1) Sc. But, if the following story be true, I must, for my share, blame the Greeks for their cruelty, Scoticisms (1787) 118. w.Yks.1 As for my shar, I've lile to loaz, ii. 308. (2) Don. ‘Looking for his share,’ as he was (though a stranger might well be surprised to see such a fine fellow, in the prime of life, looking for his living so), he put up where he list, made himself at home where he would, MacManus Bend of Road (1898) 70. 3. A slice, esp. of fish. Nhb. Caller share of ling (J.Ar.); Nhb.1 The skate fish is usually dressed for sale and cut into slices or shares. ‘Here's bonny skyet, ha'penny a share, hinny,’ Street cry in Newcastle. 4. The quantity of bobbins which each ‘doffer’ has to change. w.Yks. If a spinning-frame contain seventy-two spindles on a side, then would perhaps three ‘doffers’ be apportioned to each side to change the full bobbins for empty ones, each ‘doffer’ thus having to change twenty-four bobbins, a quantity that in W. would be called a share. ‘Go farther up; tha'rt doffin' some o' my share,’ Leeds Merc. Suppl. (May 15, 1897). 5. A mullet-fishing term; see below. Cor. The shares are divided into two classes [at Sennen Cove]; the ‘body’ share contingent on personal service; and the ‘net’ share which falls to the owner, whether he be present or absent. Every boy on reaching sixteen years of age is enrolled among the shareholders, and receives a half of a body share. At the age of eighteen he pays £2 to the managers, and thenceforth as long as he can put a hand to a rope, is entitled to a full share for his body, and also a share for the net. All widows are entitled to a net share as long as they live, and when death puts an end to the partnership the original sum invested is paid to their representatives. The ‘body’ shares number about a hundred, and the ‘net’ shares a few more, half a dozen widows accounting for the difference, Longman's Mag. (Jan. 1902) 232. 6. A division. Wil. In a dry [seed-time] the barley sown on the sand land frequently comes up in two shares, and ripens unequally, Reports Agric. (1793-1813) 76.

SHARE, v.3 Sc. (Jam.) Also written schair, schare. [ʃēr.] 1. To pour off the lighter parts of a liquid; to separate a liquid from the dregs. Cld., Lnk., Lth., Slk. Cf. shire, adj. 8. Hence Sharings, sb. pl. the useless or less valuable part of a liquid, whether poured off or remaining in the vessel. Lnk., Slk. 2. Of liquids: to separate in a vessel into two or more parts. JAM.

SHARE, v.4 Obs. Lin. [Not known to our correspondents.] To ridicule. Trans. Phil. Soc. (1858) 169; Lin.1

SHARE, SHAREN, see Sheer, v.1, Sharn.

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