Definitions for sheetings

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sheetings sheet·ing

Spelling: [shee-ting]

IPA: /ˈʃi tɪŋ/

Sheetings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in sheetings (eeghinsst).

Definitions for sheetings

noun

1. the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets.
2. wide muslin, chiefly for sheets.
3. Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of sheet piles.
4. a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
5. a broad, relatively thin, surface, layer, or covering.
6. a relatively thin, usually rectangular form, piece, plate, or slab, as of photographic film, glass, metal, etc.
7. material, as metal or glass, in the form of broad, relatively thin pieces.
8. a sail, as on a ship or boat.
9. a rectangular piece of paper or parchment, especially one on which to write.
10. a newspaper or periodical.
11. Printing and Bookbinding. a large, rectangular piece of printing paper, especially one for printing a complete signature.
12. Philately. the impression from a plate or the like on a single sheet of paper before any division of the paper into individual stamps.
13. an extent, stretch, or expanse, as of fire or water:
14. a thin, flat piece of metal or a very shallow pan on which to place food while baking.
15. Geology. a more or less horizontal mass of rock, especially volcanic rock intruded between strata or poured out over a surface.
16. Mathematics. one of the separate pieces making up a geometrical surface: one of the planes or pieces of planes making up a Riemann surface.
17. Crystallography. a type of crystal structure, as in mica, in which certain atoms unite strongly in two dimensions to form a layer that is weakly joined to others.
18. Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
19. the act of covering with or forming into a sheet or sheets.
20. wide muslin, chiefly for sheets.
21. Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of sheet piles.
22. a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
23. a broad, relatively thin, surface, layer, or covering.
24. a relatively thin, usually rectangular form, piece, plate, or slab, as of photographic film, glass, metal, etc.
25. material, as metal or glass, in the form of broad, relatively thin pieces.
26. a sail, as on a ship or boat.
27. a rectangular piece of paper or parchment, especially one on which to write.
28. a newspaper or periodical.
29. Printing and Bookbinding. a large, rectangular piece of printing paper, especially one for printing a complete signature.
30. Philately. the impression from a plate or the like on a single sheet of paper before any division of the paper into individual stamps.
31. an extent, stretch, or expanse, as of fire or water:
32. a thin, flat piece of metal or a very shallow pan on which to place food while baking.
33. Geology. a more or less horizontal mass of rock, especially volcanic rock intruded between strata or poured out over a surface.
34. Mathematics. one of the separate pieces making up a geometrical surface: one of the planes or pieces of planes making up a Riemann surface.
35. Crystallography. a type of crystal structure, as in mica, in which certain atoms unite strongly in two dimensions to form a layer that is weakly joined to others.
36. Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.

Idioms

1. three sheets in / to the wind, Slang. intoxicated.
2. three sheets in / to the wind, Slang. intoxicated.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a sheet or sheets.
2. to wrap in a sheet.
3. to cover with a sheet or layer of something.
4. Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.
5. to furnish with a sheet or sheets.
6. to wrap in a sheet.
7. to cover with a sheet or layer of something.
8. Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.

Origin of sheetings

First recorded in 1705-15; sheet¹ + -ing¹

Examples for sheetings

The body was dressed in a doti and a half of new American sheeting.

You'll be wanting that sheeting, won't you, next week, Bill?

Some of the sacks and sheeting manufactured from the materials were also shown.

Livingstone was walking; he was dressed in American sheeting.

Stone, sand and coal were stored behind the bulkhead on the sheeting.

With an ill grace the son of the dead man drew back the sheeting.

The largest portion of the sheeting and toweling is made in Scotland.

The planks for the floor and sheeting were cut out by the whip saw.

sheeting comes in several widths, and costs about $1 per yard up.

He was then walking, dressed in American sheeting, having lost all his cloth in Lake Leemba.

sheeting comes in several widths, and costs about $1 per yard up.

With an ill grace the son of the dead man drew back the sheeting.

The planks for the floor and sheeting were cut out by the whip saw.

Livingstone was walking; he was dressed in American sheeting.

Stone, sand and coal were stored behind the bulkhead on the sheeting.

The body was dressed in a doti and a half of new American sheeting.

You'll be wanting that sheeting, won't you, next week, Bill?

Some of the sacks and sheeting manufactured from the materials were also shown.

The largest portion of the sheeting and toweling is made in Scotland.

He was then walking, dressed in American sheeting, having lost all his cloth in Lake Leemba.