Definitions for sheafs

sheafs sheaf

Spelling: [sheef]
IPA: /ʃif/

Sheafs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in sheafs (aefhss).

Definitions for sheafs

noun

  1. one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
  2. any bundle, cluster, or collection:

verb (used with object)

  1. to bind (something) into a sheaf or sheaves.

Origin of sheafs

before 900; Middle English shefe (noun), Old English schēaf; cognate with Dutch schoof sheaf, German Schaub wisp of straw, Old Norse skauf tail of a fox

Examples for sheafs

Lancaster's eyes skimmed down the sheaf of papers she handed him.

He had fished from his pocket a sheaf of clippings and was perusing them intently.

Joshua supporting the case against his thigh, got out a sheaf of papers.

There was an ink-horn, a box of pounce, some quills, and a sheaf of paper there.

Here is a specimen, taken at random from the first month's sheaf.

The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain.

In one hand she carried a sheaf of Clinton literature; in the other she was lugging a stack of large yard signs.

We would get a sheaf of papers and pencils and listen to the tapes.

He extracted a fifty-dollar certificate from the sheaf, and handed it over.

No, I don't have a sheaf of short stories buried in a drawer.

Word Value for sheafs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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