Sheaf
Sheaf , noun
(Mechanics) A sheave. [Rare]
Sheaf (#) , noun
[Old English sheef, shef, schef, Anglo-Saxon sceáf; akin to Dutch schoof, Old High German scoub, German schaub, Icelandic skauf a fox's brush, and English shove. See Shove.]
1.
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
The reaper fills his greedy hands,
And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands.
2.
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case.
Sheaf , transitive verb
To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
Sheaf , intransitive verb
To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
They that reap must sheaf and bind.