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- noun Obsolete spelling of
sheet .
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Examples
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I gave order he should be made away privily, Moone and Carie to bring the round shot & wynding sheete & bear all.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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Wester, so that wee lay South southwest with a flawne sheete, and so we ranne all the same day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various
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Maine topsaile braces brases topsaile tie and Halliardes clue garnetes leich linees topmast backstaiees topmast sheets topmast shroudes buntlins topsaile bowlelings tackes topmast clulings and lifts and maine Jeere topmast staye, topmast buntlins sheets, sheete blocks
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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‘A head sheete of raynes’ and another of ermines were over the pillows.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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_Anne_, whome I never associate with the Worme and Winding-sheete.
Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843
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South southwest with a flawne sheete, and so we ranne all the same day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I even said something about it when I missed her and made contact again ... after so much time you like to think your friends get their sheete together ... and she seemed to realize it was kind of a bad thing but now it's like the memo got lost and we're back where we were before and I'm thinking of dropping her again, even looking for somewhere else to get my hair done!
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He tels them, that his Maister was a captaine late come from the Sea, and had costly apparel to bring thither, which for more earlie carriage, he entreats them lend him a sheet to bind it vp in, they suspecting no ill, because he required their boy should goe with him to helpe him cary the stuffe, the good wife steppes vnto her Chest, where her linnen lay finelie sweetned with Rose leaves and Lavender, and lends him a very good sheete in deed.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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Indeed ye Loft as they Called it wch was over the other roomes was shelter'd but wth a hurdle; here I was fforced to take up my abode and ye Landlady brought me out her best sheetes wch serv'd to secure my own sheetes from her dirty blanckets, and Indeed I had her fine sheete to spread over ye top of the Clothes; but noe sleepe Could I get, they burning turff and their Chimneys are sort of fflews or open tunnills, yt ye smoake does annoy the roomes.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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