Sheaf Definition

shēf
sheafs, sheaves
noun
A bunch of cut stalks of grain, etc. bound up in a bundle.
Webster's New World
A collection of things gathered together; bundle, as of papers.
Webster's New World
An archer's quiver.
American Heritage

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

Wiktionary

(mechanical) A sheave.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
sheafs
To gather and bind into a bundle.
American Heritage

Sheave.

Webster's New World

To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

Wiktionary

(intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Sheaf

Noun

Singular:
sheaf
Plural:
sheaves1, sheafs

Origin of Sheaf

  • From Old English sceaf, from Proto-Germanic. Akin to German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail"). Compare Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head"), German Schopf (“tuft"), Albanian çup (“without tail, maimed").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English sheef from Old English scēaf

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sheaf Sentence Examples

  • He lifted a sheaf of papers.

  • The first-fruits of the harvest here take the form of a sheaf which is waved by the priest before Yahweh.

  • The suggestion that the eating of cakes of unleavened bread, similar to the Australian "damper," was due to the exigencies of the harvest does not meet the case, since it does not explain the seven days and is incongruous with the fact that the first sheaf of the harvest was put to the sickle not earlier than the third day of the feast.

  • Weller ignored the question and handed Dean a sheaf of papers.

  • The apparent gathering together of the sheaf into a fine and well-defined stream is an effect of singular beauty.

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