Definitions for sheaves

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Spelling: [sheevz]

IPA: /ʃivz/

Sheaves is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in sheaves (aeehssv).

Definitions for sheaves

noun

1. plural of sheaf.
2. plural of sheave2 .
3. one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
4. any bundle, cluster, or collection:
5. a pulley for hoisting or hauling, having a grooved rim for retaining a wire rope.
6. a wheel with a grooved rim, for transmitting force to a cable or belt.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind (something) into a sheaf or sheaves.
2. to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.

Origin of sheaves

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 sheaves

They were stationary, and it was necessary to bring the sheaves to them.

The fields were dotted with sheaves of grain, and the farmers were hastening to gather them in.

This kind of machinery, revolving with three sheaves, is called a trispast.

Their weeping seed-sowing was followed by rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them.

Some bore ale and beer, and some bundles of bowstrings or sheaves of arrows.

The women reaped the Corn, and the men bound up the sheaves.

Spring had vanished and the sheaves were ripening in the fields.

Then he was put in a box stall and given three sheaves of oats.

One man did the cradling and another the gathering and the binding into sheaves.

The blocks used have each three rows of sheaves side by side.