Sheaf

Quick meaning: Sheaf is a noun meaning A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

Meaning

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

More Meanings

1. Any collection of things bound together.
2. A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
3. A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
4. (mechanical) A sheave.
5. (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
6. (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
7. (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U:

Example Sentences

to sheaf wheat

a sheaf of paper

The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.

Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands

Word Forms

• sheaves
• sheafs
• sheafing
• sheafed

Synonyms for sheaf

Depending on context, synonyms include reap, wheatsheaf, bundle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bundle, binders, reap, capsheaf, gerbe, hile.

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