A bundle of hair, flax, or other fibers; material prepared for spinning or weaving into textiles.
A variant spelling of 'cheve,' possibly influenced by Middle English forms, describing bundles of natural fibers used in textile production.
In medieval textile records, workers would be listed as processing a certain number of 'chevees' per day—it was a basic unit of textile production, like how we might count 'boxes' of material today.
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