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SHEET, n. [L. schenda; Gr. The Greek and Latin words signify a table or plate for writing on; L. scindo, Gr.]

1. A broad piece of cloth used as part of bed-furniture.

2. A broad piece of paper as it comes from the manufacturer. Sheets of paper are of different sizes, as royal, demi, foolscap, pot and post-paper.

3. A piece of paper printed, folede and bound, or formed in to a book in blank, and making four, eight, sixteen or twenty-four pages, &c.

4. Any thing expanded; as a sheet of water or of fire; a sheet of copper, lead or iron.

5. Sheets, plu. a book or pamphlet. The following sheets contains a full answer to my opponent.

6. A sail.

SHEET, n. In nautical language, a rope fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side-wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened with a tackand a sheet.

SHEET, v.t.

1. To furnish with sheets. [Little used.]

2. To fold in a sheet. [Little used.]

3. To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin.

When snow the pasture sheets. Shak.

1913 Definition
Sheet (sheet)
n.(?)
Sheet
[OE. shete, schete, AS. sc***emacr]te, sc***ymacr]te, fr. sceát a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat,
  1. A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
    (b) pl.
  2. To furnish with a sheet or sheets] to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
    "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." Shak.

  3. To expand, as a sheet.

    The star shot flew from the welkin blue,
    As it fell from the sheeted sky.     J. R. Drake.

    To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

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