sheave
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9.9
- noun
- /ʃiv/
- Archaic
:
haz
- The farmer stacked the sheaves of wheat neatly in the barn after the harvest.
- wheat sheaves
- bring in sheaves
- sheaves of grain
Examples
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Some swung sickles, collecting the sheaves of corn.
Fiction book (1994) -
Anxiously, he listens to the noise from the floor above, for the unloading of the sheaves that are lifted up one by one with the help of a pulley.
Fiction book (1995) -
I have sheaves of rice.
Academic text (1993) -
Last year they harvested sixty sheaves on the same field near Prases.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was working in a harvest field in Saskatchewan, pitching sheaves on a wagon when Steve walked around the cart and confronted me.
Academic text (2013) -
A ball of fire had fallen between Poliny and the Mauri mansion woods, setting a field of wheat sheaves ablaze.
Fiction book (2002) -
According to Mihaly, Scenic Technologies previously scheduled two staff people for five days to cut and produce 30 or 40 sheaves for deck rigging for a Broadway show.
Academic text (2004) -
The others nod their heads because it's a good number: two hundred and fifty sheaves that had to be lifted one by one, then set on the wagon in such a way for an even load all the way around so they wouldn't run the risk of tipping over.
Fiction book (1995) -
And back in Judah, Ruth supports her mother-in-law and herself by gleaning the fallen sheaves behind the reapers in the field.
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And from one end of the field to the other, the sheaves were resting on the ground, evenly spaced; they could have been sleeping women, dresses draped around their feet.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
9
7.5
A bundle of stalks or papers tied together for carrying
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Etymology
Sheave (noun: bundle of grain) The word sheave meaning a bundle of cut grain is the same as sheaf, which means 'a bundle' of stalks tied together at harvest, so a sheave is simply a tied bundle of grain.