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sheeting

[ shee-ting ]

noun

  1. the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets. sheet.
  2. wide muslin, chiefly for sheets. sheet.
  3. Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of sheet piles.


sheeting

/ ˈʃiːtɪŋ /

noun

  1. fabric from which sheets are made


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Other Words From

  • un·sheeting adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sheeting1

First recorded in 1705–15; sheet 1 + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Then he would lay his pipe down carefully on the sand of the cave and pass through the sheeting rain to have a look at her.

He was then walking, dressed in American sheeting, having lost all his cloth in Lake Leemba.

The tables are set up—well-worn pine boards on trestles and covered with sheeting.

The loads of the oxen consisted of blankets and bedding and a small, light tent of their sheeting about four by six feet in size.

On the bier was a corpse, covered with a canvas sheeting that looked like a sail.

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