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sheaf
(mass) | sheaf
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sheaf
(encz) | sheaf,snop n: Zdeněk Brož |
sheaf
(encz) | sheaf,svazek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sheaf
(gcide) | Sheaf \Sheaf\, v. t.
To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to
sheaf wheat.
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Sheaf
(gcide) | Sheaf \Sheaf\, v. i.
To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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They that reap must sheaf and bind. --Shak.
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Sheaf
(gcide) | Sheaf \Sheaf\, n. (Mech.)
A sheave. [R.]
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Sheaf
(gcide) | Sheaf \Sheaf\, n.; pl. Sheaves. [OE. sheef, shef, schef, AS.
sce['a]f; akin to D. schoof, OHG. scoub, G. schaub, Icel.
skauf a fox's brush, and E. shove. See Shove.]
1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other
grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
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The reaper fills his greedy hands,
And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.
--Dryden.
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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.
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The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.
--Dryden.
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sheaf
(wn) | sheaf
n 1: a package of several things tied together for carrying or
storing [syn: bundle, sheaf] |
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sheaf
(mass) | sheaf
- zväzok |
sheaf
(encz) | sheaf,snop n: Zdeněk Brožsheaf,svazek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Capsheaf
(gcide) | Capsheaf \Cap"sheaf`\, n.
The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or
finishing part of a thing.
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Sheafy
(gcide) | Sheafy \Sheaf"y\, a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves;
resembling a sheaf.
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Trichite sheaf
(gcide) | Trichite \Trich"ite\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, hair.]
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1. (Min.) A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs,
common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
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2. (Zool.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in
certain sponges.
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Trichite sheaf (Zool.), one of the small sheaflike
fascicles of slender setae characteristic of certain
sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.
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sheaf
(wn) | sheaf
n 1: a package of several things tied together for carrying or
storing [syn: bundle, sheaf] |
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