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- English Word Sheaf Definition Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
- English Word Sheaf Definition To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
- English Word Sheaf Definition To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
- English Word Sheafy Definition Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
- English Word Sheal Definition Same as Sheeling.
- English Word Sheal Definition To put under a sheal or shelter.
- English Word Sheal Definition To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
- English Word Sheal Definition A shell or pod.
- English Word Shealing Definition The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
- English Word Shealing Definition Same as Sheeling.
- English Word Shear Definition To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- English Word Shear Definition To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
- English Word Shear Definition To reap, as grain.
- English Word Shear Definition Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
- English Word Shear Definition To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
- English Word Shear Definition A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
- English Word Shear Definition A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
- English Word Shear Definition An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
- English Word Shear Definition A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
- English Word Shear Definition To deviate. See Sheer.