sheetn.1
/ʃiːt/, U.S. /ʃit/ 1. † a. A napkin, cloth, or towel. Obsolete.
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b. A broad piece of linen or cotton stuff, canvas, or the like, for covering, swathing, protecting from injury, etc. (Now felt as a transferred use of 3.) Obsolete.Also with qualifying word, as dusting-sheet, winnowing-sheet.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile
weedOE
blanket1346
cover-pane1481
sheet1487
drapet1590
cover-cloth1599
receiver1688
woolly1864
clothing1881
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 57 Sandalium, scete, loða.
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. vii. 180 Heo..hire feax gerædde, & heo mid scytan [v.r. scitan] bisweop.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 51 Sum iungling him fyligde mid anre scytan bewæfed nacod & hi namon hine.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 427/42 In sabanis, on scetum.
c1250 Moral Ode (Egerton MS.) 367 Ne scal þer beo sced [v.rr. sciet, scete] ne scrud.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8962 Þis gode mold..gurde aboute hire middel a uair linne ssete & wess þe meseles vet.
c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 536 The cristen folk..With sheetes han the blood ful faire yhent.
a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 216 Oure lady her hede sche schette in a schete.
1434 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 96 Y bequethe a shete to the..Chirche, to be peynted at the persons coste.., forto hange to-fore ij auteres.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 219 [He] syȝ an angyl wyth a whyt schete of selke wepe þe sydys of Saynt Laurens.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 236 Schetis that war sum-deill braid Thai festnyt in steid of baneris Apon lang treis.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviiv Set a stole..nygh vnto the swarme, and ley a clene wasshen shete vpon the stole.
15.. Wowing of Jok & Jynny 26 in Bannatyne MS. (Hunterian Club) 388 Ane blanket, and ane wecht also, Ane schule, ane scheit, and ane lang flail.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 40v The Wayne or Cart must be lyned with sheetes, lest..the seede fall thorowe.
1649 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. Ane new sheitt of tyking to ye lard's horss.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Sheet, in the manege.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ix. 227 Meddle with your horse-sheets, and leave shawls alone.
1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure 61 When the whole skin was thoroughly warm, the sheet was changed for another wet one.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sheets, a name given by railway companies to wagon covers, of oiled canvas, made of different qualities and sizes, from 23 to 42 square yards.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xli. 991 She should..cover up every article of furniture that is likely to spoil, with large dusting-sheets.
c. In phrases referring to performing penance in a sheet (originally for fornication).Cf. 1556, 1797 s.v. penance n. 2, and sheeten adj.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > garment of > sheet
sheet1587
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xi. 185/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Harlots and their mates by..dooing of open penance in sheets, in churches and market steeds are..put to rebuke.
1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus v. 546 An honest man that nere did stande in sheete.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iv. sig. G v J can describe how often a man may lye with another mans wife, before a come to the white sheete.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vii. 3342 The standing in a sheet (A punnishment for thy offence moste meet).
1902 W. J. Ford Hist. Cambr. Univ. C.C. Pref. 11 I am willing to do penance of sheet and candle if I have wounded any one's feelings.
2. = winding-sheet n. Also †burying-sheet, †shrouding-sheet.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud
sheetc1000
sendala1300
sudaryc1380
winding-clotha1400
winding-sheetc1420
kellc1425
sindonc1500
shroud1570
shrouding sheet1576
cerement1604
church cloth1639
socking-sheet1691
death cloth1699
sow1763
windinga1825
burial-cloth1876
negligée1927
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 260 Hi bewundon his lic mid linenre scytan.
13.. Medit. 955 Þys body was leyde vpp on a shete.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 192 Peter come after & in he went..And saȝe þe schetez spred.
1450 Will of Sir Thomas Cumberworth in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 181 My wreched body to be beryd in a chitte with owte any kiste.
1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 42 A beryng sheet with a seme.
a1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 56 Quhen thay ar prickit in a scheit Than lost is all thair ryaltie.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 97 Tybalt lyest thou there in thy bloudie sheet ? View more context for this quotation
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 17 We come into the world with a sheete about vs, as no sonner borne, but going to bee buried.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 6 All that you'll get will be a Kist, and a Sheet after all.
1817 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore in Edinb. Monthly Mag. June 278/1 Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound him.
3.
a. A large oblong piece of linen, cotton (or, formerly, hempen) cloth, used as an article of bedding, one being placed immediately above and one below the person. the sheets, the pair of sheets belonging to a bed; between the sheets (colloquial), in bed.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > sheet
sheetc1250
linclothsa1474
bed-sheet1481
slate1567
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adverb] > in bed
abedc1300
in, to, out of beda1425
between the sheets1711
c1250 Prov. Ælfred 310 in Old Eng. Misc. 120 Schene vnder schete, and þeyh heo is schendful.
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 45 No down of fetheres ne no bleched shete Was kyd to hem.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 233 Whan he streyneth hym to streche þe strawe is his schetes.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 I wull he haue..to ilk of þe too beddis too peyre schetys goode.
1462 in Anstey Munim. Acad. (Rolls) II. 698 A peyr of schets.
1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 42 A payre of shettes of holond.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. ii. 16 Cytherea, How brauely thou becom'st thy Bed; fresh Lilly, And whiter then the Sheetes . View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. L14 To steale from the hedge, both the shirt and the sheetes.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 90. ¶7 I was laid very decently between a couple of Sheets.
1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 221 The blankets were thin and the sheets they were sma'.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 216 Bitter barmaid, waning fast! See that sheets are on my bed.
1865 C. E. L. Riddell Maxwell Drewitt xxix When induced to go to bed,..retiring from view between the sheets in his boots, coat, waistcoat, and trousers.
b. plural in phrases with reference to sexual intercourse, e.g. between the sheets, lawful sheets. Also, with allusion to ‘the shaking of the sheets’ (see shaking n. 1d), to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 137 O when she had writ it, and was reading it ouer, she found Benedicke and Beatrice betweene the sheete. View more context for this quotation]
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 113 My daughters got tweene the lawfull sheets . View more context for this quotation
1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. sig. C4v Tom... How her honour..entertained him in very familiar manner...Ars. Nay more, that he had alreadie possest her sheetes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 26 Happinesse to their sheetes . View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian i. i. 185 in 3 New Playes (1655) The delight to meet in the old dance Between a pair of sheets; my Grandame call'd it The peopling of the world.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 627 The moderate use of lawful Sheets.
a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 128 You and I can never dance betwixt one Pair of sheets.
1721 E. Young Revenge ii. i Must I then..Lead to his nuptial sheets the blushing maid?
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxvii. 30 Truly a noble father..Thus in a son's kind sheets lewdly to puddle.
c. In proverbial phrase as white (or pale) as a sheet. Cf. (as) pale (or white) as one's shirt at shirt n. Phrases 2f, white adj. 4a.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. vii. viii. 84 He entered..with a Face as white as a Sheet.
1839 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Chron. Pineville (1845) 142 He turned pale as a sheet.
1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. i. viii. 125 You'll be as white as a sheet to-morrow.
1929 E. L. Rice Street Scene i. 72 Well, there was the three o' them—Mr. Maurrant lookin' at Sankey as if he was ready to kill him, an' Mrs. Maurrant as white as a sheet, an' Sankey as innocent as the babe unborn.
1952 A. J. Cronin Adventures in Two Worlds xxxix. 276 Sitting on a high stool, he seemed little larger than a shrimp, pale as a sheet, with..big dark eyes.
4. A sail. Chiefly poetic.Not a nautical use; probably originating as a misuse of sheet n.2
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun]
sailc888
clothc1400
veila1425
clout1591
wing1600
sheet1637
1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 210 A deeper Sea I now perforce must saile, And lay my sheats ope to a freer gale.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lvi. 15 Their folded sheets dismiss the useless air.
1712 T. Parnell in Spectator No. 501. ⁋3 The Boat was push'd off, the Sheet was spread.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 465 With speed the mast they rear, with speed unbind The spacious sheet, and stretch it to the wind.
5. allusively.1691 Comedy, Win Her & Take Her ii. i. 19 She's a sheet of Rivell'd parchment, on which is Imprest a perpetual Almanack.
a. An oblong or square piece of paper or parchment, esp. for writing or printing; spec. one of the pieces of definite size (varying according to the kind) in which paper is made, 24 (formerly also 25) going to a quire. (The ‘sheet’ of writing-paper was formerly once folded, so as to form two ‘leaves’.)See also broadsheet n.; also balance sheet n. at balance n.1 Compounds 2, score-sheet n. at score n. Compounds 2, time sheet n.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > piece of
sheet1510
society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > sizes of
royal paper1497
small paper1497
sheet1510
demy1546
imperial1572
pot1579
quarto1580
grape1611
crown paper1620
foolscap1660
bastard1711
copy1712
crown1712
vigesimo-quarto1864
columbier1875
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > sheet of
writing paper1477
throughc1500
sheet1510
paper-table1605
sheetling1817
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size
paper royal1497
paper rial1501
sheet1510
demy1546
imperial1572
pot1579
lily-pot1593
grape1611
cap1620
crown paper1620
post1648
foolscap1660
bastard1711
copy1712
crown1712
Kentish cap1766
vessel of paper1790
antiquarian1815
quartern1819
quatrain1819
Albert note1846
cap-paper1854
sermon paper1855
Albert1859
columbier1875
Albert notepaper1881
cuatro1904
duchess1923
half-imperial-
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C ij b Philura, a shete.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Shete of paper, foyllet de papier.
1538 J. London in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 227 A multitude of small bonys [etc.]..wiche wolde occupie iiij. schetes of papyr to make particularly an inventary of every part thereof.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ix. sig. C3v For writing one syde of a shete of paper..he will haue ij. grotys.
1613 J. Tapp Path-way to Knowl. 62 A Bale containes Reames 10 Quires 200 Sheets 5000.
1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed 24 Foure and twenty sheets do make a Quire.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1655 (1955) III. 163 He told me of an Inke that would give a dozen Copies, moist Sheetes of Paper being pressed on it.
1743 S. Johnson Let. (1992) I. 34 I believe I am going to write a long Letter, and have therefore taken a whole Sheet of Paper.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 27 May (1992) II. 213 I have returned Lord Hailes's entertaining sheets.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 263 She..writes six sheets a-week to a female correspondent.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal (Cabinet Cycl.) II. 224 The supply of blank paper, laid upon a table, from whence the sheets are drawn..by the boy standing upon the platform.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 70 He had..managed to fill two sides of a sheet of letter-paper.
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. vii Pete went out to buy a sheet of notepaper and an envelope.
1895 Bookman Oct. 26/2 Plans..should not be large folded sheets, but single page plans of small districts.
b. in sheets: lying flat or expanded, not folded.
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1887 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI.
c. A piece of paper on which objects are fixed and arranged in order for sale and use.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > sheet of paper on which objects fixed
sheet1706
1706 in J. O. Halliwell Some Acct. Coll. Bills (1852) 28 One sheet of pines 4d.
1914 N.E.D. at Sheet Mod. Several sheets of botanical specimens.
d. A piece of paper (or card) which is divided by means of perforations or the like into sections which may be torn or cut away as required.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > slip of > for tearing off
sheet1776
tear-off1889
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 2 Mar. 110/2 A Sheet of Continental Money,..containing sixteen bills, being numbered 38019, and 38032.
1852 Rep. Sel. Comm. Postage Label Stamps 94 That a sheet of perforated stamps might be charged a penny more than the unperforated one.
1901 Whitaker's Almanack (Postal Guide) Uncut sheets of half~penny wrappers, 14 on each sheet.
e. A dollar bill (U.S.) or pound note; the monetary value of this. slang.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > one-pound note
poundOE
note1775
pound note1805
one-pounder1811
one1846
jim1906
Bradbury1917
Fisher1922
oncer1931
sheet1937
iron man1938
saucepan lid1951
single1961
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. > one-dollar bill
wheel1807
one1846
William1853
case1859
frogskin1902
single1936
sheet1937
1937 Research Stud. State Coll. Washington V. 19 What a fellow gets for one sheet from an officer he can sell to the boys..for five and ten sheets.
1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 48 Which if it did happen would cost some one half a sheet.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xxvi. 191 A sheet the night. Five quid if you last a week.
1978 Hot Car June 94 Maserati air horns [have]..a howling, double high-pitched, screaming note... This cacophony can be yours, whatever car you drive, for less than ten sheets.
f. U.S. slang. = rap sheet n. at rap n.2 Compounds.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police records
police blotter1861
charge-sheet1866
murder book1876
blotter1887
charge-book1890
crime sheet1902
mug book1902
occurrence book1929
rap sheet1949
sheet1958
murder file1967
murder log1972
1958 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Mar. 88/3 Sheet, a criminal record.
1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xxvi. 125 Somebody scared him into it. Let's take a look at his sheet, I want to know who.
6. † d. A pamphlet. Obsolete.
a. In printing and bookbinding, a piece of paper (as in 5) printed and folded so as to form pages of a required size (folio, quarto, etc.). Also, a quantity of printed matter equal to that contained in a sheet.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > sheet or page of
side1579
sheet1589
sheetful1711
page1743
society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > folded to form pages
sheet1589
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iij All his works bound close, are at least sixe sheetes in quarto, and he calls them the first tome of his familiar Epistle.
1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered vi. 92 When the sheet is past the Correctors hand, and is Printed off.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 218 If it be the First Page of the first Sheet of a Book the Signature is A.
1689 Gazophylacium Anglicanum Pref. sig. A4 Lest the Book should exceed the quantity of Sheets design'd.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (advt.) A considerable part of the copy was prepared, and upwards of twenty sheets actually printed in that method.
1808 W. Scott Let. 30 Dec. (1932) II. 142 The fee is ten guineas a-sheet.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. *2 Two Sheets in Folio, Quired, or lying one in another.
1844 C. Dickens Let. 3 Apr. (1977) IV. 94 A Magazine Sheet is sixteen pages.
1885 Lock in Workshop Rec. 4th Ser. 228/1 By ‘binding’ a book is meant the arrangement of the ‘sheets’ composing it..in proper sequence, within a pair of covers.
b. in sheets: (of books) not bound.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > bound > unbound
in (loose) quires1437
unbound1541
in sheets1693
ungathered1888
1693 London Gaz. No. 2854/4 Numbers of the Books..have been..stolen out of Thomas Basset's Warehouse.., all in Sheets.
1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 49 Four hundred of News from the Invisible World in sheets.
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding i. 1 Should the amateur wish to have his books in sheets, he may get them by asking his bookseller for them.
1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 144 Long books were divided in quires of 12–24 sheets before this folding took place; hence ‘books in quires’ as a synonym for books in sheets.
c. plural. With qualifying demonstrative or its equivalent: Pages or leaves of a book; esp. these sheets, the following sheets = the book now before the reader. Now rare.
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society > communication > reading > [noun] > reading matter > the present
the following sheets1605
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 5 In sacred sheetes of either Testament 'Tis hard to finde a higher Argument.
1676 W. Allen Serious & Friendly Addr. Non-conformists 114 What is said..by J. O. in some Sheets intituled, Two Questions [etc.].
1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing Ded. Having of late Discovered the Short and Easy Method of Fencing, contained in the following Sheets.
1710 C. Wheatley Illustr. Bk. Common Prayer xv. (1729) 540 It is easy for the Readers to turn to and observe them, without my swelling these Sheets with them here.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xvi In changing his plan,..which was done in the course of printing, the early sheets retained the vestiges of the original tenor of the story.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 4 The following sheets assume that the English nation [etc.].
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society > communication > book > kind of book > pamphlet > [noun]
pamphleta1415
pamphlet-book1568
sheetc1684
brochure1765
c1684 in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 348 It is not my Presumption, in this Sheet, to write the Life of this great Statesman.
1726 Life W. Penn in P.'s Wks. (1782) I. p. cli About this time [1702]..he wrote a sheet entitled, ‘Considerations upon the Bill against Occasional Conformity.’
e. A newspaper. Now chiefly U.S.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
courant1621
coranto1624
paper1642
mercury1643
newsletter1665
newspaper1667
slip1688
raga1734
news1738
gazetteer1742
sheet1754
news sheet1841
spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1754 S. Foote Knights i. 6 Quires of News-Papers! Now, I reckon, you read a Matter of eight Sheets every Day.
a1796 R. Burns Poems (1968) I. 469 Your sheet, man, (Tho' glad I'm to see't, man), I get it no ae day in ten.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 445 He tried to..read his paper as usual... He chuckled and swore to himself behind the sheet.
1912 Times 19 Oct. 5/3 The insinuations of the Temps are only taken up by a very few boulevard sheets.
1926 R. Hughes in Cosmopolitan Feb. 44/1 ‘How come the newspapers keep saying your fights are all fixed?’.. ‘Ah, who cares what the doity sheets say!’
1958 Spectator 20 June 807/2 A mass-circulation London Sunday sheet.
1977 R. M. Ours in Bond & McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers iii. 220 Rivington made it clear that he intended no partisan sheet.
7. A continuous extent or ‘sweep’ of something conceived as hanging, falling, or moving in a certain direction.in extended use.1891 A. Bierce Tales Soldiers & Civilians 100 Our fellows..sent broad sheets of bullets against the blazing crest of the offending works.
a. Of light, lightning.
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the world > matter > light > [noun] > sheet of
sheet1795
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 46 Such sheets of fire, Such bursts of horred thunder. View more context for this quotation
1795 S. T. Coleridge Lines at Shurton Bars 58 When a second sheet of light Flashed o'er the blackness of the night.
1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun x, in Wks. (1853) III. 21 A broad sheet of lightning, which, through the darkness of evening, revealed the boat.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 June in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 260 There was a broad sheet of daylight in the west.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. viii. 193 The sky was a sheet of lightning.
b. Of rain, mist, fog.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a continuous extent of rain
sheet1697
rain belt1851
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > layer, bank, etc., of mist
bank1601
sheeta1774
streamer1871
weft1883
shred1912
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > thin layer or sheet
fall cloud1816
sheet1897
layer cloud1951
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain. View more context for this quotation
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 327 A sheet of vapour rising from the sea.
1844 C. Dickens Let. 5 Nov. (1977) IV. 212 The Water has been falling down in one continued sheet.
1894 R. T. Pritchett et al. Yachting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. 377 A heavy squall with sheets of rain.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl i As one beholds the Paps of Jura on a day of sea-fog through swaying sheets of white cloud.
c. In an organ, the current (of wind) directed through the wind-way against the upper lip of a pipe.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > current of wind
sheet1880
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xvii. 135 Any movement of the languid would..alter the direction of the sheet of wind.
8. A broad expanse or stretch of something lying out flat, presenting a white or glistening surface, or forming a relatively thin covering or layer.
a. of water. (In quot. 1593 ? collective)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something
spacea1382
widenessa1382
continuance1398
field1547
sheet1593
universe1598
main1609
reach1610
expansion1611
extent1627
champaign1656
fetch1662
mass1662
expanse1667
spread1712
run1719
width1733
acre1759
sweep1767
contiguity1785
extension1786
stretch1829
breadths1839
outspread1847
outstretch1858
the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something > relatively flat or thin
sheet1593
1593 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 219 Eighte shete of the fishinge water of Southe Yarowe.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 83 There you have the Canal and Sheets of Water in the same manner as in the other.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 193 A Long as well as Large ffountaine or pond wch is Called a sheete of water.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 41 A..Stream..Now a blue watry Sheet, anon, dispers'd.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 106 The light and smoky mist That in its fall the liquid sheet throws wide.
1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 35/1 The vast plain..during the greater part of the year..is a sheet of water.
1896 M. M. Harper Rambles in Galloway i. 23 The loch is a lovely sheet of water.
b. of ice, foam.
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1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 172 If it be calm Weather..they stay in the Sea, and fasten themselves to a sheet of Ice, and so they drive along with the Stream.
1807 Wilkinson in Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) II. App. 29 The ice had commenced drifting in large sheets.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters ii, in Poems (new ed.) 109 A slumbrous sheet of foam below.
1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. iv. 78 The interior of that tract of country is covered with one wide sheet of snow and ice.
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxvi. 359 The surf was..tossing sheets of foam around the stone piers.
c. of vegetation, flowers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > covering the surface of the ground
sheet1793
screef1817
ground cover1900
plant cover1906
cover1909
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 177 Now Nature..spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 313 Broad sheets of ivy, here and there, mantle the headlong rock.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 245 Sheets of hyacinth That seem'd the heavens upbreaking thro' the earth.
d. of sediment, gravel, rock, lava, etc.; spec. in Geology and Metal-mining (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun]
flake1577
lamina1794
stratulum1797
sheet1815
sheeting1891
spread1893
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > of stone or soil
sill1794
sheet1815
sheeting1891
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxxii. 123 O'er sheets of granite dark and broad..lay the road.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 300 A mountain, whose sides were covered with heather and sheets of loose shingle.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 203 Sheets of lava are found in the north-eastern part of Ireland.
1880 D. C. Davies Treat. Metallif. Minerals & Mining 421 Sheet [Australian], a solid body of pure ore filling a crevice.
1897 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 17 June 422 A now denuded gravel sheet which once covered the district.
1898 S. H. Cox Prospecting for Min. 113 Cave Deposits..might be subdivided into chambers or pockets, flats or sheets, and pipe veins.
1905 R. S. Tarr New Physical Geogr. 34 A mass of lava thrust between strata forms an intruded sheet or sill.
e. Anatomy and Pathology of tissue.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun] > thin layer of tissue
sheet1872
1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 30 There are four muscular sheets thus arising placed beneath one another and distinct from each other.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 504 The new epidermis is thrown off..either in sheets or in scales.
9.
a. A relatively thin piece of considerable breadth of a malleable, ductile, or pliable substance.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin plate or layer > of pliable substance
sheet1673
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 132 Lay the Meat round the Dish, on a sheet of Paste.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 459 A Sheete of Leade covering no lesse than 6 akers by measure, being totaly mealted.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery iv. 59 Lay a Sheet of Puff-paste at the Bottom of your Dish.
1842 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (ed. 3) xiv. 311 A still higher heat may be gained by fanning the upper part of the fire with a sheet of pasteboard.
1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 15 Feb. 226/2 (Glassmaking) The sheets, when annealed, are drawn from the kiln.
1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. xv. 100 A sheet of plate glass.
1904 A. W. Howitt Native Tribes S.E. Austral. viii. 462 A sheet of bark is rolled round him.
b. A flat piece of tin, used for baking cakes, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > tray or trough
kimnel1335
kneading-troughc1405
kneading-tubc1405
dough trough1440
shaul1600
hutch1658
sheet1747
baking tray1808
trendle1874
cookie sheet1900
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xv. 140 Flower some Sheets of Tin, and drop your Biskets of what Bigness you please.
1771 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (ed. 2) App. 371 Grease your tin sheets, and drop them (the jumballs) in the shape of a mackaroon.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator p. xxiii Baking-sheets of various sizes.
c. Rubber prepared in thin pieces.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] > in specific form
rubber sheet1842
rubber band1849
cut sheet1900
sheet1900
crêpe rubber1907
smoked sheet1909
twist1909
air foam1937
foam1937
1900 W. T. Brannt India Rubber, Gutta-percha & Balata ii. 103 The manufacture of fine cut sheet was invented by Charles Macintosh.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 16/3 Vallambrosa smoked sheet realized 4s. 73/ 4d. and first latex crepe 4s. 41/ 2d. per lb.
d. Sheet iron or steel; a length of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > steel in specific form
gad steel1604
wisp-steel1604
steel-plating1825
sheet1884
tubular steel1933
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > sheet iron
sheet1884
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron x. 211 It is usual to describe all plates of a thickness below No. 4 B.W.G. (Birmingham Wire Gauge)—·238 inch—as ‘sheets’.
1897 Daily News 12 Apr. 2/5 Sheets of 24 gauge.
1899 Daily News 23 Jan. 8/6 Galvanised corrugated sheets.
10. A more or less extensive piece (of a wall). rare. (Cf. French pan de mur.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > piece of
sheet1799
1799 Hull Advertiser 21 Sept. 4/1 Every shot knocking down whole sheets of a wall.
11. Geometry. A portion of a surface analogous to the branch of a curve.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun] > part of
zone1795
sheeta1831
a1831 H. P. Hamilton Analyt. Geom. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 730 The conical surface will be composed of two similar portions, one above, and the other below the vertex; each portion is called a sheet.
1859 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1891) IV. 117 An algebraic cone consists..of a closed sheet or sheets.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
sheet-cloth n.
ΚΠ
1547 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 256 A sheite cloithe of my lynne webbe.
sheet-hem n.
ΚΠ
1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 14 The width of a sheet hem is very different from that on a pocket-handkerchief.
sheet-leaf n.
ΚΠ
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. B1v The foul Fiend took him napping with his nose Betwixt the sheet-leaves of his conjuring Book.
sheet-lettering n.
sheet-stealer n.
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Adventurier Vn Adventurier vagabond,..a hedge-creeper, henne-killer, sheet-stealer.
sheet-whiteness n.
ΚΠ
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It xxvii. 250 This..creature who was Pauline's dark daughter; but now ice-whiteness, sheet-whiteness,..in her still and scared face.
b.
sheet-like adj.
ΚΠ
1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 1044 An expanding comb guides the even and sheet-like threads on to the weavers' beam.
1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 19 A loose sheet-like body-covering wrapper.
sheet-pale adj.
ΚΠ
1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd iii. v. 138 Sir David Baird, still helpless from his wound, Was carried in a cot, sheet-pale and thin.
sheet-white adj.
ΚΠ
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 270 The closed door of a sheet-white cottage.
C2. Special combinations:† sheet-shaking n. Scottish Obsolete remains of meal, etc. shaken from the bottom of a sheet; cf. poke-shakings n. at poke n.1 Compounds.
sheet bar n. chiefly U.S. a piece of bar iron that has been cut to a length to form a blank to be subsequently heated and rolled into a sheet of iron.
ΚΠ
1837 Repertory Patent Inventions 7 202 The inflexible or incompressible wheel..is formed by wrought-iron and sheet bars of suitable thickness.
1940 D. L. Burn Econ. Hist. Steelmaking 1867–1939 xiii. 330 Over a million tons was composed of steel semi-products—billets. sheet bars, wire rods, and tube strip.
2011 L. Smith & G. Mason Mingo Junction 99 The National Steel Company bought it in 1900 and sold it the following year to Carnegie-Illinois Corporation..which began producing 8-inch and 10-inch sheet bars, slabs, and ingots.
sheet band n. Printing (see quot. 1946).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for holding sheet to cylinder
sheet band1946
1946 V. S. Ganderton in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding x. 120/2 Carefully set, the sheet bands hold the sheet up to the cylinder and help to expel air from between the sheet and the cylinder, and thus minimize buckles.
sheet-calender n. (see quot. a1884).
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 804/1 Sheet Calender, a machine for pressing paper, rubber, etc., into sheets and giving it surface.
sheet-card n. a kind of card used in cotton manufacture (see quot. 1825).
ΚΠ
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 380 Cards are formed in two ways; the one called sheet-card, is made about four inches wide, and 18 inches long, or of a length corresponding with the width of the main cylinder, which they have to cover; the other, called fillet-card.
sheet-cow n. [compare sheeted adj. 3] dialect, a cow having a broad white band round the body
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > colour or markings > animal defined by
sheet-cow1772
roan1789
1772 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 476 This comes hoping that the sheet cow will come walking..into the charming domaines of Bulstrode on Wensday next.
sheet-delivery n. (see quot. a1884).
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 804/1 Sheet Delivery, delivering the printed sheet from the form to the fly.
sheet erosion n. the erosion of soil by rainwater acting more or less uniformly over a wide area.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > soil erosion
gulling1567
soil erosion1896
sheet erosion1917
gully erosion1928
truncation1941
1917 J. G. Mosier & A. F. Gustafson Soil Physics & Managem. xxvii. 361 Sheet erosion is the source of far greater loss than gullying.
1978 W. W. Emmett in M. J. Kirkby Hillslope Hydrol. v. 171 Rilling is generally considered to be evidence of more accelerated erosion than sheet erosion.
sheet-fed adj. Printing using paper in the form of cut sheets.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [adjective] > using sheets
sheet-fed1926
1926 R. W. Polk Pract. of Printing xv. 114 There are rotary presses (called sheet-fed rotaries) which print sheets of paper previously cut to size, but most of them print from large rolls of paper which feed a continuous web through the machine at a high rate of speed.
1973 W. H. Hallahan Ross Forgery iv. 52 The paper salesman..sold these people paper in sheets for sheet-fed presses.
sheet-filled adj. having the sails filled out by the wind.
ΚΠ
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila ix. xxxix. 135 The Poets Pharos be that sets forth sail, While he steers sheet-fill'd with a holy Gale.
sheet-flood n. a short-lived expanse of running water that spreads as a continuous film over a large area following sudden heavy rain.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
1897 W. J. McGee in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 8 88 Colloquially a moving water-body of this type is sometimes known as a ‘wash’; but since the term is commonly applied primarily to the product and only secondarily to the agency, and since it is usually restricted to limited, though broad channels.., it seems desirable to use some other designation for the water-body; and the term sheetflood has come into use in notes and in conversation.
1938 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 49 1344 One of the most striking peculiarities of sheetfloods is the shortness of their flow in distance as well as in time.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 49 After storms, flow is in the form of sheet-floods, comparatively shallow floods running over a broad area.
sheet-flow n. Geomorphology a flow that covers a wide expanse of a surface instead of being confined in a channel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water
roddon1857
platform-mud1863
cone1864
fan1864
levee1870
alluvial fan1873
apron1889
sand-wash1901
scroll1902
spillbank1909
sheet-flow1928
point bar1945
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > sheet erosion
sheet-flow1928
sheet-wash1936
1928 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 39 481 The deposit was obviously not a sheet~flow; it was a stream [of detrital material] of unknown length.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 85/2 This leads to preferential weathering at the break in slope, the weathering products being removed by sheetflow, wind and other processes.
sheet glass n. (a) cylinder glass; also attributive; (b) a vessel made of this glass; (c) in modern use, a kind of flat glass made by a vertical drawing process (cf. Fourcault n.).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > glass or crystal vessel
glass?c1225
crystal glass1567
water glass1590
crystal1630
vitrum1657
flint-glass1675
sheet glass1805
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > sheet glass
spread glass1777
sheet glass1805
cylinder-glass1851
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > glass-work or glassware > types of > piece of
Venice glass1527
sheet glass1805
Ravenscroft1924
whimsy1938
St. Louis1969
1805 Act 45 Geo. III c. 30 Sched. All other Window Glass..commonly called..by the Name of Crown Glass, or German Sheet Glass.
1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. iv. 745 Sheet glass furnaces.
1887 Month 61 162 The reliquary, consisting of two round sheet glasses.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 202/1 Sheet glass of admirable flatness for many common purposes, unmarred by glass-to-metal contact, is produced by the continuous vertical draw process.
sheet ice n. ice formed in a thin, smooth layer on water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > thin
thin ice1625
skim1807
black ice1827
tickly-benders1853
shell ice1875
cat-ice1884
rubber ice1895
sheet icec1900
skim ice1938
c1900 in Regional Lang. Stud.—Newfoundland (1978) viii. 24 Sheet ice, thin ice of one or two nights frost.
1964 H. H. Smith Shelter Bay 123 But even thin ice—what we call sheet ice, could cause us plenty of trouble.
sheet lightning n. lightning in a sheet-like form due to reflection by the clouds.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > sheet lightning
summer lightning1679
sheet lightning1794
wildfirea1831
heat-lightning1834
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > specific types
fireball1611
forked lightning1611
summer lightning1679
ball of fire1684
thunder-ball1686
sheet lightning1794
wildfirea1831
heat-lightning1834
globular lightning1843
ribbon lightning1888
beaded lightning1889
bead lightning1899
1794 J. B. S. Morritt Let. 24 June (1914) iii. 50 We have beautiful sheet lightning every evening, and have had for above a week.
1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 472 Lightning of this sort, denominated sheet lightning, is mostly to be seen in the hot sultry evenings of summer or autumn, and is generally unaccompanied with thunder.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 88 When it seem'd he saw No pale sheet-lightnings from afar, but fork'd Of the near storm.
sheet-pile n. (see quot. 1862).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s)
pilelOE
piling1422
spile1513
piloti1674
stilt1697
drift1721
bearing pile?1761
sheet-piling1789
sheeting-pile1837
screw pile1840
sheet-pile1841
sheath-piling1902
1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. at Foundation To drive a row of sheet [printed sheep] piles next the foundations of walls adjoining the sea, or rivers.
1862 Rankine Man. Civ. Engin. §404. 605 Sheet Piles are flat piles, which, being driven successively edge to edge, form a vertical or nearly vertical sheet, for the purpose of preventing the materials of a foundation from spreading.
sheet-pile v. (transitive) to protect with sheet-piles.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > lay foundations > with piles
pile1432
stag1610
spile1829
sheet-pile1842
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 58/2 Sheet-pile it a short space from the wall of the hole.
sheet-piling n. a continuous wall of sheet-piles.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s)
pilelOE
piling1422
spile1513
piloti1674
stilt1697
drift1721
bearing pile?1761
sheet-piling1789
sheeting-pile1837
screw pile1840
sheet-pile1841
sheath-piling1902
1789 W. Jessop Rep. Navigation Thames & Isis (1791) 23 With some short sheet piling underneath it at the foot.
1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 12/2 The foot of the river wall will be protected by sheet piling of whole timbers 8 feet long.
sheet pointing machine n. (see quot. a1884).
ΚΠ
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 804/2 Sheet Pointing Machine, a machine for preparing printing sheets for cutting.
Sheetrock n. the proprietary name of a plasterboard made of gypsum between heavy paper (also with small initial).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > plasterboard
plasterboard1891
Sheetrock1921
1921 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. 1065/2 Sheetrock... Plaster Wall-Board. Claims use since Aug. 28, 1917. U.S. Gypsum Co., Chicago.
1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Nov. 2475 Sheetrock... Plaster in sheets, for use as wall boards in building or decoration. U.S. Gypsum Co..., Chicago.
1973 R. B. Parker Godwulf Manuscript (1974) ix. 71 It was a tiny office... No windows, sheetrock partitions painted green.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > left-over food
reliefc1300
ortc1325
broken meatc1384
scrapsa1387
reversionc1450
remissalsc1460
superfluities1483
levet1528
sheet-shaking1543
table crumb1566
relics1576
off-falling1607
analects1623
voiding1680
voidance1740
leftover1866
pot-washings1912
slarts1913
1543 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 191 The vittell byaris of the merkat scattis thame grytlie in taking of sampillis, scheytschakkingis, and sic oder ewill vsit custum.
1561 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 335 Nor na skaiffry, sic as sampill and scheit schakin, to be tane thairof.
sheet-wash n. sheet erosion; (erosion caused by) a sheet-flood.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > sheet erosion
sheet-flow1928
sheet-wash1936
1936 V. C. Finch & G. T. Trewartha Elem. Geogr. xxv. 559 One of the most widespread and least noticed kinds of erosion on tilled land is sheet wash.
1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 93 305 If Tibu accounts of the nature of the rainfall are even partially credited, some form of sheet-wash can readily be imagined covering the whole floor of even a broad wadi, and undercutting its sides.
1964 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (new ed.) xx. 613 A sudden change of slope seems to be favoured by torrential seasonal rainfalls and by the liberation of only minute amounts of fine debris which can be readily swept away by sheet-wash over the pediment.
1972 J. G. Cruickshank Soil Geogr. ii. 39 Fluvial erosion by rivers or sheet wash is the most important present form of transportation of material.
sheet-ways adv. in single sheets written only on one side.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [adverb] > on one side
sheet-ways1752
anopisthographically1887
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 262 That each Sheet of an Extract, written Sheet-ways, consist of forty nine Lines,..and, if wrote Book-ways, that it consist of two Pages, and of thirty six Lines in each Page.
sheet-wise adv. in the form or manner of sheet-work.
sheet-work n. (see quot. 1888).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > printed matter on both sides
sheet-work1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 123 Sheet work, applied to works or jobs printed both sides—the reverse of half-sheet or ‘work and turn’.
C3. Passing into adjective.
a. Rolled out in a sheet; esp. of metals, as sheet iron (also frequently attributive), sheet lead, sheet metal, sheet steel.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > other states or forms
well-attempereda1460
sheet1582
unstamped1622
unplanished1683
shotten1766
calciform1782
spongy1807
cored1865
glazed1874
stamped1879
unwelded1885
solid-drawn1888
siliconized1920
inoculated1923
deep-drawn1925
stress-relieved1925
projection-welded1933
roll-formed1935
over-aged1953
scalped1958
1582 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 358 Sheete lead to make A spowte.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 75 The Carpenters-sheet-lead.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 73 The Lye-Trough..is Leaded with Sheet-Lead.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 11 Bell-springs are rarely made of any thing else than sheet iron thus managed.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vii. 206 Sheet caoutchouc,..which is about the tenth or twelfth of an inch thick.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 131 A piece of sheet copper.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiii. 570 Plates of sheet zinc are often required for the precipitation of metals.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 290/2 A thin plate of sheet brass.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 323 There are three sizes of the sheet-iron hand-barrow.
1869 R. Murray Marine Engines (ed. 5) 35 Sheet-flue Boilers.
1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls vi. 99 We..sent for the sheet-iron man, and had the stove taken up stairs.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 239 The piece of sheet percha that is held in the hand.
1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 9 A Bunsen's burner..provided with a small chimney of sheet-iron.
1933 Rep. & Mem. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. No. 1553. 18 Constructions in thin sheet metal (e.g. monocoque fuselage) normally consist of a large area of sheet divided into a number of small panels by a system of stiffeners.
1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) i. 3 The sheet metal forming the front wings and the sides of the bonnet.
1976 J. K. Lieberman & N. S. Rhodes Compl. CB Handbk. v. 97 It is fastened securely by two sheet-metal screws that actually screw into the rain-gutter groove of the trunk.
b. Hence, pertaining to the manufacture of sheet iron or steel, as sheet-mill. Also in objective combinations, as sheet-maker, sheet-worker.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > rolling-mill
rolling mill1616
plate mill1671
steel mill1858
roller shop1859
lead-mill1863
sheet-mill1884
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xvi. 334 The sheet mills of Birmingham and of South Wales.
1885 Daily News 5 Oct. 2/5 Certain of the sheet makers are declining to accept further orders... Orders in the sheet trade are very irregularly distributed.
1886 Daily News 20 Sept. 2/5 Sheet prices are without change.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Sheet Makers, manufacturers who work sheet mills, as distinguished from plates and strip mills.
c. Of water, etc.: Spread out in a sheet.
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1896 Idler Mar. 175/1 At this time it was a sheet-calm. A floating soup-plate would not have filled.
1898 W. M. Davis & W. H. Snyder Physical Geogr. 314 The water finds no channels; it spreads out in a shallow sheet, called a sheetflood, which gains a breadth of a mile or more, but a depth of only one or two feet.
1904 Mission Field June 436 The land is sub~irrigated by what is called ‘sheetwater’.
d.
(a) = Printed on a single sheet or broadside (see sense 5), esp. sheet-almanac.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [adjective] > printed on one side
sheet1683
1683 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 187 I writ to your Lordship for a dozen of your sheet Almanacks for this yeer.
1767 Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe 83 There has been lately published a sheet list of changes, said to have happened during the present reign.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 342 She examines the sheet almanac pasted up behind the door to see what holiday it might be.
1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf ii. 17 We had a big sheet almanac hanging at one end of the cabin.
(b)
sheet music n. music published in sheet form (as opposed to book form).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > sheet music
sheet music1857
1857 Lawrence (Kansas Territory) Republican 11 June 3 (advt.) City drug store... Periodicals, lithographs, sheet music, etc.
1881 F. J. Crowest Phases Mus. Eng. 146 The pricing of Songs and of Sheet-music generally.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. iii. 534 Performing rights, sheet music, gramophone records.
1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice i. xii. 84 The window of the shop was crammed with sheet music.
Draft additions June 2017
sheet web n. a spider's web in the form of a flat or curved sheet of closely placed or tangled silk threads.
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1878 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 128 In this bell-shaped den..one may see a germ or modification, or suggestion, of the dome-shaped sheet-web of the Linyphioidæ.
1986 W. J. Tietjen in W. A. Shear Spiders vii. 185 Each builds a nest consisting of an irregular sheet web spun over dead leaves, a labyrinthine tangle web above the sheet, and one or more retreats.
2013 R. A. Bradley Common Spiders N. Amer. 209 Recluse spiders build thin sheet webs, often under rocks, debris, or stored material in buildings.
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sheet cake n. originally and chiefly U.S. a large flat rectangular cake baked as a single layer, and usually iced or otherwise decorated.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > rectangular cake
slab-cake1902
slab1908
1862 Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) 21 Feb. 4/3 (advt.) Hundley & Cance's Steam Bakery, Richmond... Fresh baked Soda, Butter, Sugar, and Arrow-Root Crackers; Plain, Ornamented, and Sheet Cakes; Spice Nuts, Pies, &c.
1954 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 10 Mar. 10/4 A sheet cake, decorated with pink frosted umbrellas and blue frosting raindrops..had the couple's names written on it.
2012 L. Erdrich Round House ix. 206 Clemence had constructed a great sheet cake frosted with whiskey-laced sugar.
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sheetn.2
/ʃiːt/, U.S. /ʃit/ 1.
a. A rope (or chain) attached to either of the lower corners of a square sail (or the after lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail), and used to extend the sail or to alter its direction. false sheet n. see quot. 1644.See also fore-sheet n. 1, jib-sheet (jib-sheet n. at jib n.1 Compounds), mainsheet n. 1.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace
sheet1336
swing-rope1336
shoot1405
mainbrace1485
mainsheet1485
top-sheet1485
smite1494
tailing-rope1495
tail-rope1495
brace1626
stern-sheets1626
trimmers1630
fore-sheet1669
jib-sheet1825
boom-sheet1836
1336 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 19/31 m. 4 In xxx. petris cordis de canabo..produobus schetes inde faciendis.
1352 Excheq. Acc. Q.R. 20 no. 27 (P.R.O.) Pro ij. cables novis, ij. chetis, j. hauser et quodam bowelyne.
1373 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 370 [One sail with] 2 shettes, 2 thurghwalis.
c1460 Pilgrim's Sea-Voy. 25 Hale the bowelyne! now, vere the shete!
1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 A payre of takkes & a payr of shets weying dccxlj lb.
1522 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII III. ii. 975 Vyere the shit.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 Hail eftir the foir sail scheit.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 The boulespret hath no bowlines, and the misen sheats, are called the starne sheats.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 23 The Sheats..in top sailes..serue to hale them home, that is, to bring the clew close to the yards arme.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 92 We use to bind an other roape to the clew of the saile above the Sheate-block, to succour and ease the Sheate, and that roape we call a false Sheate.
a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 293 Vere, vere, more Sheet.
a1717 W. Diaper tr. Oppian Halieuticks (1722) i. 16 Let fly the Sheets.
1796 P. Hoare Arethusa (song) 18 Not a sheet, or a Tack, Or a brace did she slack.
1805 E. Berry 13 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 118 (note) The main-top-gallant sheet was carried away. I then let fly the top gallant sheets.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 571 Enough ‘sheet’ to allow a slow headway.
1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 160 With boom sails sheets are used for controlling the boom.
b. †betwixt a pair of sheets or both sheets aft: said of a ship sailing right before the wind.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > use of wind in sailing [phrase] > before the wind
betwixt a pair of sheets1627
bunt fair1653
both sheets aft1769
off the (a) wind1813
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 A flowne sheat is when shee goes before the wind, or betwixt a paire of sheats, or all sailes drawing.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 42 Well Master the Channell is broad enough; Yet you cannot steare betwixt a paire of sheats; Those are words of mockery betwixt the Cunner and the Stearesman.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 328 Each bulging sayle..begins to swell, betweene two sheetes.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (1780) Both sheets aft (entre deux écoutes, Fr.), the situation of a ship that sails right afore the wind.
2. three sheets in the wind: very drunk. a sheet in the wind (similarly to be a sheet in the wind's eye at eye n.1 Phrases 3h(b)) is used occasionally = half drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
merrya1382
semi-bousyc1460
pipe merry1542
totty1570
tipsy1577
martin-drunk1592
pleasant1596
mellow1611
tip-merry1612
flustered1615
lusticka1616
well to live1619
jolly1652
happy1662
hazy1673
top-heavy1687
hearty1695
half-seas-over1699
oiled1701
mellowish1703
half channelled over1709
drunkish1710
half-and-half1718
touched1722
uppisha1726
tosie1727
bosky1730
funny1751
fairish1756
cherry-merry1769
in suds1770
muddy1776
glorious1790
groggified1796
well-corned1800
fresh1804
to be mops and brooms1814
foggy1816
how-come-ye-so1816
screwy1820
off the nail1821
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821
swipey1821
muggy1822
rosy1823
snuffy1823
spreeish1825
elevated1827
up a stump1829
half-cockedc1830
tightish1830
tipsified1830
half shaved1834
screwed1837
half-shot1838
squizzed1845
drinky1846
a sheet in the wind1862
tight1868
toppy1885
tiddly1905
oiled-up1918
bonkers1943
sloshed1946
tiddled1956
hickey-
1821 Egan Real Life i. xviii. 385 Old Wax and Bristles is about three sheets in the wind.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xx. 201 He..seldom went up to the town without coming down ‘three sheets in the wind’.
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xvii. 135 Snow père might be a thought tipsy—a sheet or so in the wind, as folks say.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xx. 161 Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind's eye.
3. See quots. and fore-sheet n. 2, stern-sheet n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > [noun] > boards covering space at
sheet1644
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 92 Those plancks under water, which come along the Run of the ship, and are closed to the Sterne-post, are called Sheates, and that part within boord, abaft, in the Run of the ship, is called the sterne~sheates.
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 29 The flooring abaft the stateroom [sitter's seat] is called the after-sheet, the forward one the forward-sheet, and the next to it (if there be two forward), the waist-sheet.
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 31 Sheets are the boards used fore and aft, as a floor to the boat, in the same way as the burthens amidships.
1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 160 Sheets, the spaces in a rowing boat forward and abaft the thwarts, and named respectively fore-sheets and stern-sheets.
1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms (at cited word) Head-sheets, stern-sheets (in open boats), the floor-boards covering the space either at the head or the stern of the boat.
Compounds
General attributive.
sheet-bend n. see bend n.1 3.
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1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 56 Take your tack under the yard and bend it by a sheet-bend to the outer clew.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sheet-bend, a sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both parts of the other, and under its own part.
sheet-bitt n.
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1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 160 Sheet Bitts, bitts near the mast to which the topsail sheets are belayed.
sheet-block n. see block n. 2.
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1644Sheate-block [see sense 1a].
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 225 Sheet-block straps in the lift with a splice.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. ix. 47 In which case the heavy tack and sheet-blocks may be unhooked.
sheet-clip n.
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1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms Sheet clip (or sheet slip), an instrument, the principal agent in which is a sort of drop pawl, by which sheets may be held, while necessary, and instantly released.
sheet-pendant n. see pendant n. 4.
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1908 Paasch's Dict. Naval Terms 422 Sheet-pendant, a strong piece of rope attached by one end to the clew of a stay-sail or jib.
sheet-pennant n. see pennant n.1 1.
ΚΠ
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. ix. 53 Having the sheet pennant hauled amidships.
sheet-rope n.
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a1642 J. Suckling Lett. (1646) 89 Which, like the pulling of a sheat-rope at Sea, slackens the sail.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 226 Sheet-rope splices into the clue of the sail.
sheet-slip n. see slip n.3 3e.
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1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms Sheet clip (or sheet slip), an instrument, the principal agent in which is a sort of drop pawl, by which sheets may be held, while necessary, and instantly released.
sheet-stopper n.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 176 Fore~tack, and Sheet, Stoppers, are for securing the tacks and sheets, till belayed.
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sheetv.1
/ʃiːt/, U.S. /ʃit/ 1. transitive. To wrap or fold in or as in a sheet (literal and figurative); now spec. to cover with a protecting sheet of canvas, tarpaulin, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)]
bewindOE
writheOE
windc1175
bewrap?c1225
lapa1300
umbelaya1300
umbeweave1338
wlappec1380
enwrapa1382
wrapa1382
inlap1382
envelop1386
forwrapc1386
hapc1390
umbeclapa1400
umbethonrea1400
umblaya1400
wapc1420
biwlappea1425
revolve?a1425
to roll up?a1425
roll?c1425
to roll ina1475
wimple1513
to wind up?1533
invest1548
circumvolve1607
awrap1609
weave1620
sheet1621
obvolve1623
embowdle1625
amict1657
wry1674
woold1775
overwrap1815
wrapper1885
wrapper1905
weve-
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover and protect > in other specific manner
shoe1639
flask1707
to stop off1855
sheet1857
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 163 You haue in sleepe the image of death, wherein you are sheeted and wrapped vp euery night.
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. iv. 60 The pale moon that now sheeted with its light her whole figure.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xii. 91 Trees there are all sheeted with variegated fire.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. i. 238 A fair young creature, sheeted in red smock of Murderess.
1857 Househ. Words 27 June 605/2 The truck being now sheeted and ticketted.
1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough iii [A racehorse] Clothed and hooded, littered to the hocks, and sheeted to the tail.
2.
a. To spread a sheet or layer of some substance upon (a surface); to cover with a sheet (e.g. of snow or ice). (Also with down, up.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)]
lay?a1366
overlaya1400
coverc1400
sheeta1616
glidder1631
candy1639
face1648
to do over1700
coat1753
candify1777
bed1839
to lay down1839
overcoat1861
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. iv. 65 When Snow the Pasture sheets . View more context for this quotation
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 110 The sky-borne waters..Veil the dark deep and sheet the mountain's side.
1863 ‘W. Lancaster’ Praeterita 85 The amber daffodils, Sheeting the floors of April.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 106 The flakes were large... The whole city was sheeted up.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iv. i. 194 The snow was falling,..the whole world was blotted out and sheeted down below that silent inundation.
1912 J. Masefield Dauber v. xli Is it cold? We're sheeted up, I tell you, inches thick.
b. Const. with (the substance of which the layer consists).
ΚΠ
1801 J. Mollard Art of Cookery (1836) 168 Sheet a mould with paste.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 218 The river was sheeted with ice.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 77 Its roof was sheeted, like St. Peter's, with copper.
1893 Times 14 July 3/1 The country is green as a meadow and sheeted with flowers.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > cover bed [verb (transitive)] > with sheets
sheet1714
1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 119 A Bed nicely sheeted and strow'd with Roses.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 36 A bed ready sheeted and warmed.
1820 in R. Southey Wesley I. 457 One of the maids, who went up to sheet a bed.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
fand-
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 72 To be sheeted by Bellama's side.
1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 90 To sheet with maidens.
5. intransitive. To spread or flow in a sheet. Also of rain: to fall in a sheet or sheets (sense 7b). Frequently with down.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in a sheet
sheet1847
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > in a sheet
sheet1847
1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 324 High sheets the water round him in glittering spray.
1871 G. MacDonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination II. 203 Cataracts sheet..through the air.
1971 D. Beaty Temple Tree 9 The monsoon rain was still sheeting down.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. 2B/1 Bumping over the high noon thunderheads, with rain sheeting across the little round windows, the air passenger over the South Pacific grips the seat arms.
6. transitive. to sheet up (see quot. 1883).
ΚΠ
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 141/1 To Sheet-up.—To rub dry with sheets.
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sheetv.2
/ʃiːt/, U.S. /ʃit/ transitive. to sheet home: to extend the sheets of (the topsails) to the outer extremities of the yards so that the clews are close to the sheet-blocks. Also absol. (and in extended sense, see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > trim sails > sheet or brace in
to round aftc1625
to round inc1625
to sheet home1797
1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 227 They sheeted home the topsails.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 371 The topsails were let fall, and sheeted home.
1837 E. Howard Old Commodore iv Let us shake out our reefs, sheet home, and away.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sheet home!.. Also, when driving anything home, as a blow, &c.
1890 W. Morris Story of Glittering Plain xix He stepped the mast and hoisted sail, and sheeted home.
Derivatives
ˈsheeted adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > extended by sheet
sheeted1821
1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends xliii As sheeted sails, torn by the blast, Flap round some vessel's rocking mast.
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