Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of sheet.
  • noun The shad.
  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of shote.
  • Apparently, trim, or some such sense.

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  • noun A sheatfish

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Examples

  • The main reason for making a chocolate that melts at higher temperatures is so that it can be sold in hot countries - it'sheat-resistant up to 55C 131F whereas most chocolate starts to melt at 30C.

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  • The main reason for making a chocolate that melts at higher temperatures is so that it can be sold in hot countries - it'sheat-resistant up to 55C 131F whereas most chocolate starts to melt at 30C.

    Chocolate News TK 2009

  • Now you've inspired me to start baking with more whole sheat flour.

    Whole Wheat Apple Muffins 2009

  • Or u finds urself a cheet sheat so vous does not has to remember not to oublier les codes necessary:

    Halloween Pose - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • To Barb - on the sheat part riding up - yeah, me too.

    And the dots, the dots they don't stop - A Dress A Day 2007

  • In that article he presents a graph which is actually corrected in a separate sheat of 400 data sets from northern hemisphere.

    MBH98 Source Code: Cross-validation R2 « Climate Audit 2005

  • Sekleteya, his cook and servant, and a black, shaggy dog, with a snout as blunt as that of a sheat-fish.

    The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

  • Of river-fish, the male of the sheat-fish is remarkably attentive to the young.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • The egg of the sheat-fish is as big as a vetch-seed; the egg of the carp and of the carp-species as big as a millet-seed.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • In the case of the sheat-fish the growth from the egg is exceptionally slow, and, in consequence, the male has to keep watch for forty or fifty days to prevent the-spawn being devoured by such little fishes as chance to come by.

    The History of Animals 2002

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