SHEAF

bundle, sheaf

(noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

sheaf (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 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.

Synonyms

• (bundle of grain): reap

Verb

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

(transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

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

Anagrams

• SHAEF, Shefa

Source: Wiktionary

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Sheaf, n. (Mech.)

Definition: A sheave. [R.]

Sheaf, n.; pl. Sheaves. Etym: [OE. sheef, shef, schef, AS. sceáf; akin to D. schoof, OHG. scoub, G. schaub, Icel. skauf a fox's brush, and E. shove. See Shove.]

1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. Dryden.

2. 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. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

Sheaf, v. t.

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

Sheaf, v. i.

Definition: To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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