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noun

Sheaf n. (Mech.) A sheave. (R.)

Sheaf n. (pl. sheaves)

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."

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."

verb

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

Sheaf v. i. To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. "They that reap must sheaf and bind."

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Etymology of 'Sheaf'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sheaf" Quotes from Famous Books

... weep their enchantless grief. Spring is so much too bright, since Spring is brief, And in our hearts is Autumn all the year, Least sad when the wide pastures are most drear And fields grieve most—robbed of the last gold sheaf. ...

— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... The present sheaf of young folk's stories were written during the latter part of that battle for recognition, and my gathering of them inside book covers is pursuant of his own intention at the time of his death on November ...

— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London

... did not mean Where I reap thou shouldst but glean, Lay thy sheaf adown and come Share my harvest and ...

— English Songs and Ballads • Various

... hand should bring only its culminating glories, its most perfect results, whether of leaf or flower or fruit. For in an urn of tintless alabaster, that had lain centuries in the breathless dust and gloom of an Egyptian tomb, that hand had set a sheaf of gentians, every fringed cup blue as the wild river when a noon sky tints it, or as the vaulted azure of a June midnight on the edge of the Milky Way,—a sheaf no Ceres owned, no foodfull garner coveted, but the satiating aliment ...

— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 3, No. 16, February, 1859 • Various

... possession of] a horse and all such pampering vanities! and that can foot it five or six miles in the dirt, and preach till starlight, for as many [5 or 6] shillings! as also a sober and temperate Clergy, that will not eat so much as the Laity, but that the least pig, the least sheaf, and the least of everything, may satisfy their Spiritualship! And besides, a money-renouncing Clergy, that can abstain from seeing a penny, a month together! unless it be when the Collectors and Visitationers come. These are all Gospel dispensations! ...

— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

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