An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SHEAFED
Verb
sheafed
simple past tense and past participle of sheaf
Source: Wiktionary
SHEAF
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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