Lexic.us

Definition of Sheaf

1. Noun. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.

Definition of Sheaf

1. n. A sheave.

2. n. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

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

4. v. i. To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Definition of Sheaf

1. Noun. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. ¹

2. Noun. Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. ¹

3. Noun. A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. ¹

4. Noun. (''unit'') A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. ¹

5. Noun. (''mechanical'') A sheave. ¹

6. Noun. (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. ^W ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheaf

1. to sheave [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: sheave

Medical Definition of Sheaf

1. A sheave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheaf

Literary usage of Sheaf

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

1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"This is called the Mother-sheaf. It is delivered to the farmer's wife, who unties it and gives drink-money in return.2 Sometimes the last sheaf is called, ..."

2. Library World (1903)
"My idea was to have classified subject catalogues in sheaf form, if my initial inclination towards the handy sheaf volumes si-emed to be justified by ..."

3. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1907)
"It is not necessary, as in the case of all other sheaf-holders, to undo this one in order to remove the slips when additions are being made, the loosening ..."

4. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1903)
"The most used and oldest of the British sheaf cata- Fia. ... It is not necessary, as in the case of all other sheaf-holders, to undo this one in order to ..."

5. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers (1920)
"are attached to the back of this form of sheaf, which enable contents labels ... Adjustable sheaf Catalogue, Open for making Additions with Cradle and Key ..."

6. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1892)
"sheaf 91 Bruen Family Ches. sheaf g1 Bunbury Church Ches. sheaf g1 ... sheaf 91 Burghs in Chester Esdaile 89 Burnley Wilkinson 89 Burscough Priory Bromley ..."

7. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"For where the tenth sheaf is set out, the par- against bad son nas an opportunity oi comparing it with the other nine sheaves; but if the sheaves be first ..."

8. Projective Geometry by Linnaeus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"Involutions on a sheaf of Rays of First Class.—// the rays of a sheaf of rays of first class are paired in involution, then there is at least one pair of ..."

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