Definition of Sheeting

1. Noun. Fabric from which bed sheets are made.

Generic synonyms: Cloth, Fabric, Material, Textile
Derivative terms: Sheet

Definition of Sheeting

1. n. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

Definition of Sheeting

1. Noun. Fabric used to make sheets (bedding). ¹

2. Noun. (engineering) A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheeting

1. material in the form of sheets [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sheeting

1. 1. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width. 2. A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment. 3. The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheeting

sheet pile
sheet piling
sheet pizza
sheet protector
sheet rock
sheet web
sheete
sheeted
sheeter
sheeters
sheetfed
sheetful
sheetfuls
sheetier
sheetiest
sheeting (current term)
sheetings
sheetless
sheetlet
sheetlets
sheetlike
sheetline
sheetlines
sheetrocked
sheetrocking
sheetrocks
sheets
sheetsful
sheetsman
sheetsmen

Literary usage of Sheeting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IX THE sheeting AND BRACING OF TRENCHES AND TUNNELS The shoring of trenches consists of placing braces across them to hold their banks in normal ..."

2. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"CHAPTER IX THE sheeting AND BRACING OF TRENCHES AND TUNNELS The shoring of trenches consists of placing braces across them to hold their banks in normal ..."

3. Engineer Field Manual...: I. Reconnaissance. II. Bridges. III. Roads. IV by United States War Dept (1912)
"The top gallery sheeting is then inserted and partly driven as hefore. The shaft sheeting outside the gallery stanchions is then cut ..."

4. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"Steel sheeting has been largely employed recently in place of wooden sheeting. It has the advantage that it can be driven in advance of the excavation, ..."

5. Sewerage and Sewage Treatment by Harold Eaton Babbitt (1922)
"outside dimensions of this frame are such as to allow sheeting to be slipped in between it and the sheeting already driven. The frame is lowered into ..."

6. The Architects' and Builders' Pocket-book: A Handbook for Architects by Frank Eugene Kidder, Thomas Nolan (1915)
"The fundamental idea of steel sheeting is not я, as CAST-IRON ... The general * of steel sheeting started in this country in 1899 when Luther P. ..."

7. Cambria Steel: A Handbook of Information Relating to Structural Steel by Cambria Steel Company, George Edward Thackray (1919)
"Number per pound 48 38 33 27 Clips and Bolts: — For fastening sheeting to purlins other than angle purlins when asbestos lining is used under sheeting. No. ..."

8. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal: A Textbook by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1922)
"In some materials, as hardpan, excavations may be carried down to greater depths, 12 to 20 ft., without sheeting and without much danger if the trench is ..."

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