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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Sheaf

Sheaf (sheaf)
n.(?)
Sheaf
(Mech.)
  1. A sheave.
    [R.]

Sheaf

Sheaf (sheaf)
n.
Sheaf
  1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

    The reaper fills his greedy hands,
    And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.     Dryden.

  2. Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.

    The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

Sheaf

Sheaf (sheaf)
v. t.
Sheaf
  1. To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

Sheaf

Sheaf (sheaf)
v. i.(?)
Sheaf
  1. To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

    They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak.













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