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sheeted

sheeted adjective: covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper. Also the simple past and past participle of sheet.

Adjective

sheeted (not comparable)

  1. Covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper.
    • `Shall I raise thee,' she said, apparently addressing the corpse, `so that thou standest there before me, as of old? I can do it,' and she held out her hands over the sheeted dead, while her whole frame became rigid and terrible to see, and her eyes grew fixed and dull.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (road haulage) Secured by a special tarpaulin.
    • This load must be well roped and sheeted to be safe.
    • [...] Brush No. D5504 was first seen in charge of a rake of sheeted mineral wagons at midday on July 6, [...].1960 September, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Western Lines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 564

Also used as

sheeted is also the simple past and past participle of sheet.

Words formed from sheeted

Phrases with sheeted

Questions about sheeted

What does sheeted mean?
Sheeted means covered by a sheet, as of cloth or paper.
What part of speech is sheeted?
Sheeted is an adjective.

Words near sheeted in the dictionary

  1. sheetage
  2. sheetages
  3. Sheetal
  4. sheetboard
  5. sheete
  6. sheeted
  7. sheeter
  8. sheeters
  9. sheetes
  10. sheetfed
  11. sheetflood

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