Sheaf /(?)/

1. A sheave. (Mech.) [R.]

pl. Sheaves

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.

1. To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

1. To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

   They that reap must sheaf and bind.