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Gathered and bound into bundle, as in stalks and ears of grains.

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Usage examples (15)
  • It's sheaved in a soft tissue layer that has the venom and bacteria in it.
  • Autumn would mean tall, dry grasses, ready to be scythed and sheaved and draped into a roof for the lodge.
  • He saw a vendor selling sugarcane from an open-sided van, mangoes in wooden crates and tall cane sheaved with twine.
  • BILL FRIST, (R) MAJORITY LEADER: The sort (ph) of the filibuster has been sheaved because we are placing principle before politics and results before rhetoric.
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