noun

1. a large, rectangular piece of cotton, linen, etc., used on a bed, usually in pairs, one under and one over the body
2. 1. a rectangular piece of paper, esp. one of a number of pieces cut to a definite, uniform size, as for use in writing, printing, etc.
   2. a large piece of such paper with a number of pages printed on it, to be folded into a signature for binding into a book: usually used in pl.
   3. Informal a newspaper a scandal sheet
3. a broad, continuous surface, layer, or expanse, as of flame, water, ice, etc.
4. a broad, thin, usually rectangular piece of any material, as glass, plywood, metal, etc.
5. a flat baking pan a cookie sheet
6. Old Poet. a sail
7. Geol. any layer or deposit of rock, gravel, soil, ice, etc. that is broad in extent and comparatively thin
8. Philately
   1. the unseparated stamps printed on a piece of paper by a single impression of a plate
   2. pane (sense )

Etymology: ME schete < OE sceat, piece of cloth, lappet, region, akin to Ger schoss, lap, ON skaut, lappet: for prob. IE base see shoot

transitive verb

adjective

noun

1. a rope or chain attached to a lower corner of a sail: it is shortened or slackened to control the set of the sail
2. the spaces not occupied by thwarts, or cross seats, at the bow and stern of an open boat

Etymology: ME shete, as if < OE sceata, lower corner of a sail (akin to sheet) but actually short for sceatline, line attached to that part of a sail