How to pronounce shim

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What shim means

noun

A thin wedge slipped into a gap to make something level

In a sentence: Grandpa tucked a shim under the short table leg so it would stop wobbling.

Where it comes from: No one is sure where it came from. It began in Kent, England, as a word for a piece of iron on a plow, and it meant a thin piece of wood by 1723.

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