Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of straw.
- Finished around the top with a flare, like that of a sheaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Made of straw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sheave . - adjective Made into a
sheaf
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Examples
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He saw a vendor selling sugarcane from an open-sided van, mangoes in wooden crates and tall cane sheaved with twine.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He saw a vendor selling sugarcane from an open-sided van, mangoes in wooden crates and tall cane sheaved with twine.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He saw a vendor selling sugarcane from an open-sided van, mangoes in wooden crates and tall cane sheaved with twine.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It's sheaved in a soft tissue layer that has the venom and bacteria in it.
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BILL FRIST, (R) MAJORITY LEADER: The sort (ph) of the filibuster has been sheaved because we are placing principle before politics and results before rhetoric.
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Ahab must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the mainmast head, he received the two ends of the downwardreeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared, pin for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail.
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He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts, travelling through a single-sheaved block.
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Autumn would mean tall, dry grasses, ready to be scythed and sheaved and draped into a roof for the lodge.
Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999
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They consist of eight separate machines, which work in succession, so as to begin and finish off a two-sheaved block four inches in length.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various
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On steamers, of course, we have no yards, and so little items like spanners and wrenches and three-sheaved blocks fall from aloft.
Wide Courses 1912
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