sheaf
one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
any bundle, cluster, or collection: a sheaf of papers.
to bind (something) into a sheaf or sheaves.
Origin of sheaf
1Other words from sheaf
- sheaflike, adjective
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How to use sheaf in a sentence
Of every twenty sheafs of wooden staves and arrow heads, for sale, one halfpenny.
Chronicles of London Bridge | Richard ThompsonThe golden corn-sheafs—the old dark-alleyed orchards, and the high streets of antique towns.
Uncle Silas | J. S. LeFanuThe pyre to the right was somewhat less high, but was also ornamented with green branches besides sheafs of wheat.
The Gold Sickle | Eugne SueHow pleasant it was to see white faces in the fields, to gaze on the waving corn, and on the martial rows of wheat-sheafs!
Pictures of Southern Life | William Howard RussellBut she crept up to him in the hole he had made underneath the great, brown sheafs of wood, and squeezed herself down by him.
Half a Life-time Ago | Elizabeth Gaskell
British Dictionary definitions for sheaf
/ (ʃiːf) /
a bundle of reaped but unthreshed corn tied with one or two bonds
a bundle of objects tied together
the arrows contained in a quiver
(tr) to bind or tie into a sheaf
Origin of sheaf
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