sheafs

Noun

sheaf (plural sheaves or sheafs)

1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
   • O, let me teach you how to knit again
     This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
     These broken limbs again into one body.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   reap, wheatsheaf

2. Any collection of things bound together.
   • a sheaf of paper

   Synonyms:

   bundle

3. (collective) A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
   • The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite
4. (collective) A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
   • Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34
5. A sheave.
6. If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.

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