Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Material, such as metal or cloth, formed into or used to form sheets.
  • noun The act or process of providing with or forming into sheets.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In carpenter-work, same as sheathing: a common term in the United States.
  • noun The breaking up of a massive rock into relatively thin, parallel tabulæ united by closely spaced faults or joints.
  • noun The act or process of forming into sheets or arranging in sheets: as, the sheeting of tobacco.
  • noun Stout white linen or cotton cloth made wide for bed-sheets: it is sold plain or twilled, and bleached or unbleached.
  • noun In hydraulic engineering, a lining of timber to a caisson or coffer-dam, formed of sheet-piles, or piles with planking between; also, any form of sheet-piling used to protect a river-bank.
  • noun In milit engin., short pieces of plunk used in conjunction with frames to support the earth forming the top and sides of galleries.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.
  • noun (Hydraul. Engin.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
  • noun The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Fabric used to make sheets (bedding).
  • noun engineering A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fabric from which bed sheets are made

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Examples

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