sheet
/ʃit/ verb C2- To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material. · Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.
- To form into sheets.
- To pour heavily. · We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.
- To trim a sail using a sheet.
He/she/it sheets · Past sheeted · Past participle sheeted · -ing form sheeting
Verb forms
- Base form
- sheet
- He/she/it
- sheets
- Past
- sheeted
- Past participle
- sheeted
- -ing form
- sheeting
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I was staring at the strange message which I had scrawled, as he deciphered it, upon a sheet of foolscap on my knee.
A small stream fed it and continued beyond it, so that the sheet of water, though turbid, was never ditchlike or unhealthy.
It was the sheet upon which I had scrawled the enigmatic message.
“I have jotted down the more essential ones upon this sheet of paper, together with a few addresses which you will find of service.
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