What is the plural and meaning of sheaf?

Question

What is the plural and meaning of sheaf?

Answer 1

1. A sheaf is a bundle of grain stalks tied together after reaping.

2. A sheaf is a bundle of papers.

Plural is sheaves.

Answer 2

The others have all said it before me. A sheaf is a bundle usually of stalks after harvest or a bundle of papers.

the plural is sheeves.

Answer 3

Sheaves is the plural

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sheaf (plural sheaves)

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

Quotations

1593: O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, These broken limbs again into one body. — William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act V, Scene III, line 70.

The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. -- Dryden.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.

a sheaf of paper

A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

Quotations

The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. -- Dryden.

(unit) A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

Quotations

1786: Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34.

(Mechanical) A sheave.

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets. W

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Answer 4

1. one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.  

2. any bundle, cluster, or collection: a sheaf of papers.  

plural: sheaves

Answer 5

Why do you want plural of sheaf. To many cooks spoil the dish.Be contend with one shef.

Answer 6

Sheaves

Answer 7

sheaves - I've only heard the plural used in relation to grain; see definition 1 of sheaf below.

Merriam Webster definition:

Main Entry:

    sheaf

Pronunciation:

    \ˈshēf\

Function:

    noun

Inflected Form(s):

    plural sheaves Listen to the pronunciation of sheaves \ˈshēvz\

Etymology:

    Middle English sheef, from Old English scēaf; akin to Old High German s****.sheaf, Russian chub forelock

Date:

    before 12th century

1 : a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together

2 : something resembling a sheaf of grain <a sheaf of papers>

3 : a large amount or number <won a sheaf of awards>