sheaves

as inpackage
as instack
as inhaystack
as inbunch
as inpulley

Synonyms for sheaves

noun bundle; whole

Antonyms for sheaves

Word Origin & History

Old English sceaf (plural sceafas) "large bundle of corn," from Proto-Germanic *skauf- (cf. Old Saxon scof, Middle Dutch scoof, Dutch schoof, Old High German scoub "sheaf, bundle," German Schaub "sheaf;" Old Norse skauf "fox's tail;" Gothic skuft "hair on the head," German Schopf "tuft"), from PIE root *(s)keup- "cluster, tuft, hair of the head." Extended to bundles of things other than grain by c.1300. Also used in Middle English for "two dozen arrows." General sense of "a collection" is from 1728.

Example Sentences for sheaves

Some bore ale and beer, and some bundles of bowstrings or sheaves of arrows.

They were stationary, and it was necessary to bring the sheaves to them.

Then he was put in a box stall and given three sheaves of oats.

One man did the cradling and another the gathering and the binding into sheaves.

This kind of machinery, revolving with three sheaves, is called a trispast.

The blocks used have each three rows of sheaves side by side.

Spring had vanished and the sheaves were ripening in the fields.

The women reaped the Corn, and the men bound up the sheaves.

The fields were dotted with sheaves of grain, and the farmers were hastening to gather them in.

Their weeping seed-sowing was followed by rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them.