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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
  • Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
  • A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
  • mathematics An abstract construct in W
  • (''Mechanical'') A sheave.
  • (''unit'') A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

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Verb:

  • (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
  • (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

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