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Groups of items held or bound together. Also: Bundles of stalks held together by straw or twine.

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Usage examples (32)
  • The sheaves of wheat were piled high in the barn.
  • Noun : a sheaf of papers
  • And all this proven in sheaves of documents and letters which he shook in my face!
  • Surrounding the eagle, inside the legends, is a nearly concentric partial wreath of grain sheaves, tied at the bottom with a double-looped ribbon.
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