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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

Only two all-mountain frontside skis without alloy sheeting survived the hardpack of this year’s test hill to earn inclusion here.

At a landfill, haulers lay trash in layers called “lifts,” sometimes lining each one with clay or plastic sheeting that prevent fluids and gases from leaching into soils and the atmosphere.

To save weight, designers cut out the center of the titanium alloy sheeting sandwiched inside the base.

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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