sheaf
/ʃiːf/
Dictionary
noun
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
"a sheaf of paper"
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- A sheave.
- An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
Synonyms:reap
verb
- To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
"to sheaf wheat"
- To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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