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Sheet   /ʃit/   Listen
noun
Sheet  n.  
1.
In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically:
(a)
A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. "He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners." "If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets."
(b)
A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
(c)
A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl., The book itself. "To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer."
(d)
A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
(e)
A broad expanse of water, or the like. "The two beautiful sheets of water."
(f)
A sail.
(g)
(Geol.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
2.
(Naut.)
(a)
A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
(b)
pl. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. Note: Sheet is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets, or thin plates or leaves; as, sheet brass, or sheet-brass; sheet glass, or sheet-glass; sheet gold, or sheet-gold; sheet iron, or sheet-iron, etc.
A sheet in the wind, half drunk. (Sailors' Slang)
Both sheets in the wind, very drunk. (Sailors' Slang)
In sheets, lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; said especially of printed sheets.
Sheet bend (Naut.), a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye.
Sheet lightning, Sheet piling, etc. See under Lightning, Piling, etc.


verb
Sheet  v. t.  (past & past part. sheeted; pres. part. sheeting)  
1.
To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets."
2.
To expand, as a sheet. "The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky."
To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.





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"Sheet" Quotes from Famous Books



... pile!' cried Tisquantum; and the flames burst up from the dry crackling wood, and threw a broad sheet of light on the ...
— The Pilgrims of New England - A Tale Of The Early American Settlers • Mrs. J. B. Webb
... to the other, and then surveyed Wasgatt and the papers he was clutching. He eyed General Waymouth with much interest and some surprise. He had not been informed of that gentleman's presence in the hotel. The General returned the gaze with serenity, creasing his sheet of manuscript on the table ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... a piece of red silk, about an inch in diameter, as in plate 1, at Sect. III. 1., on a sheet of white paper, in a strong light; look steadily upon it from about the distance of half a yard for a minute; then closing your eyelids cover them with your hands, and a green spectrum will be seen in your eyes, resembling in form the piece of red silk: ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... is no medium for them betwixt the highest elevation and death with infamy. Never can they, who, from the miserable servitude of the desk, have been raised to empire, again submit to the bondage of a starving bureau, or the profit of copying music, or writing plaidoyers by the sheet. It has made me often smile in bitterness, when I have heard talk of an indemnity to such men, provided they returned to ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... Pierrot as he looked at a sheet of paper under his hand, on which for an hour or more he had been making notes out of worn and dusty company ledgers. It was Pierrot who stood in his way. Pierrot's father, according to those notes, had been a full-blooded Frenchman. Therefore Pierrot was half French, and Nepeese ...
— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood


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