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noun

Sheeting n.

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

(Hydraul. Engin.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.

verb

Sheet v. t. (past & past part. sheeted; pres. part. sheeting)

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."

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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Etymology of 'Sheeting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sheeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... present convalescence. Most of the houses were now occupied, but almost all were unpainted, stained gray and brown by wind and sun and snow, forlorn and hideous things of loosened boards and flapping ends of tarred sheeting. ...

— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... bring two hundred dollars in exchange for goods brought in by the travelers. For a light wagon the immigrants did not hesitate to offer three or four heavy ones, and sometimes a yoke of oxen to boot. Such very desirable things to a new community as sheeting, or spades and shovels, since the miners were overstocked, could be had for almost nothing. Indeed, everything, except coffee and sugar, was about half the wholesale rate in the East. The profit to the Mormons from this migration was even greater in 1850. The gold-seeker sometimes paid as high as ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

... compass and Yawl the lantern, made of a glass bottle and a piece of copper sheeting (like the rest of our equipments, the spoil ...

— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall

... necessary for the expedition; thus an expenditure of about 9,000 pounds was sufficient for the purchase of the almost innumerable items that formed the outfit for the enterprise. This included an admirable selection of Manchester goods, such as cotton sheeting, grey calico, cotton and also woollen blankets, white, scarlet, and blue; Indian scarfs, red and yellow; handkerchiefs of gaudy colours, chintz printed; scarlet flannel shirts, serge of colours (blue, red), linen ...

— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... oxen consisted of blankets and bedding and a small, light tent of their sheeting about four by six feet in size. We rose early and worked hard till about the middle of the forenoon getting all things ready. They had been in a state of masterly inactivity so long in this one camp that they were anxious to leave it now forever. Only in progress ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

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