sheaf
/ʃiːf/ verb C2- To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves · to sheaf wheat
- To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
He/she/it sheafs · Past sheafed · Past participle sheafed · -ing form sheafing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sheaf
- He/she/it
- sheafs
- Past
- sheafed
- Past participle
- sheafed
- -ing form
- sheafing
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Yet we added one more sheaf to our harvest before we left Woolwich Station.
When Marilla went home Anne came out of the fragrant twilight of the orchard with a sheaf of white narcissi in her hands.
Familiar as I was with my friend’s methods, it was not difficult for me to follow his deductions, and to observe the untidiness of attire, the sheaf of legal papers, the watch-charm, and the breathing which had prompted them.
The young woman turned over a sheaf of counterfoils.
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