SHEAF
\ʃˈiːf], \ʃˈiːf], \ʃ_ˈiː_f]\
Definitions of SHEAF
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
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To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
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To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, - usually twenty-four.
By Oddity Software
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A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
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To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
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To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, - usually twenty-four.
By Noah Webster.
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A quantity of cut grain bound together; a bundle; enough arrows to fill a quiver.
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To gather or bind into bundles, as grain.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A quantity of things, esp. the stalks of grain, shoved together and bound: any bundle or collection.
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To bind in sheaves.
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To make sheaves.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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