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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,
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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Sheet'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sheet.html.
Entry for 'Sheet'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sheet.html.
