sheaf

Preposition: of

• corn: In Uist on Bride's Eve the girls " fashion a sheaf of corn into the likeness of a woman.
• wheat: Above the mural crown is a garb or sheaf of wheat or corn used to represent farming.
• paper: MSS; 11 sheaf of loose papers, various sizes bound together.
• arrow: The sheaf of arrows is from the arms of the Peel family of Drayton, to which belonged Sir Robert Peel.
• note: Thus he takes to the stage with a sheaf of dog-eared notes explaining what modules he must complete to graduate from his comedy apprenticeship.
• barley: The sheaf of barley refers to the malting industry and the hart's head to the County.

Converse of object

• carry: August -- Barley Moon Persephone, virgin Goddess of rebirth, carries a sheaf of barley as a symbol of the harvest.
• take: Then they take a choice sheaf of corn, generally oats, and fashion it into the form of a woman.
• have: I had a sheaf of paperwork in my hands.
• adjust: The purpose of adjusting the sheaf is to get all mortars firing parallel.
• tie: The reaping and binding machine cut the corn, collected it into a bundle or sheaf and also tied the sheaf with string.
• offer: Mr Darling begs to differ - and yesterday offered a sheaf of impressive statistics to back up his argument.

Adjective modifier

• last: For example, great ceremony was always attached to the gathering of the last sheaf of corn.
• first: Here the first sheaf is cut that is cut in England: that the reader may depend upon.
• whole: I ran down stairs with clutching the whole sheaf in my hands.
• huge: I can only read a book so many times, but there are endless possibilities with a huge sheaf of blank pages.

Modifies a noun

• catalog: A sheaf catalog is held in the reading room.
• theory: It may be wondered if the move to kernel tropism in trope bundle and sheaf theory is absolutely necessary.
• binder: These sheaf binders contain duplicate copies of the typed slips in the Index of MSS.

Noun used with modifier

• wheat: The wheat sheaf is from the crest of the Wheatley family, Lords of the Manor of Erith until 1875.