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Word entry · 5 letters

sheaf

Best crossword clue

"Bundle of grain"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃiːf/Part of speech nounSorted aefhsStarts with SEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2H3E4A5F

Definitions

  1. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

Word origin

From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).

Used in a sentence

  • O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, These broken limbs again into one body.
  • And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
  • Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands

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