sheaf

sheaf

noun

pl. sheaves

a bunch of cut stalks of grain, etc. bound up in a bundle
a collection of things gathered together; bundle, as of papers

Origin of sheaf

Middle English schefe from Old English sceaf, akin to German schaub from Indo-European base an unverified form skeup-, an unverified form skeubh-, a bundle, clump from source shop

sheave

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sheaf

noun

pl. sheaves,

A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine.
A collection of items held or bound together: a sheaf of printouts.
An archer's quiver.

transitive verb

sheafed, sheaf·ing, sheafs

To gather and bind into a bundle.

Origin of sheaf

Middle English sheef from Old English scēaf

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Noun

(plural sheaves or sheafs)

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
a sheaf of paper
A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
(mechanical) A sheave.
(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present sheafs, present participle sheafing, simple past and past participle sheafed)

To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
(intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Origin

From Old English sceaf, from Proto-Germanic. Akin to German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail"). Compare Gothic ðƒðŒºðŒ¿ð†ð„ (skuft, “hair of the head"), German Schopf (“tuft"), Albanian Ã§up (“without tail, maimed").

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