One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > sheaf (9) sheafc725 One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. reapeOE A bundle or handful of unthreshed wheat or any similar crop; a sheaf, or the quantity sufficient to make a sheaf. Cf. rip, n.2 yelmc1000 In Old English, a handful, bundle, sheaf, as of reaped corn; in modern dialect use, a bundle of straw laid straight for thatching (see yelm, v.): =… garbc1460 A wheatsheaf. Now only with reference to a wheatsheaf depicted in heraldic insignia. wheat-sheafc1530 gerbe1807 A wheat-sheaf. (Cf. garb, n.1 3) Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— specific quantity of (3) |
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