Sheaves is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHEAVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHEAVE, to gather into a bundle, also SHEAF
NOUN:
• a wheel with a groove for a rope to run on, as in a pulley block.

Words related to SHEAVES

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Words that contain SHEAVES

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How to use SHEAVES in a sentence

• He stood high upon a platform and pitched sheaves from the wagons upon the sliding track of the ponderous, rattling threshing-machine.
• The fields of wheat and barley along the river are very rich, and at present the natives are busily occupied in drawing the sheaves on large sleds to the open threshing-floors.
• The hills have a charm of their own on a fine day, more especially when the fields are full of golden corn and the old-fashioned Cotswold men are busy among the sheaves.
• La-ter on, when the hay was all gath-ered, the wheat be-gan to rip-en, and the men were bu-sy cut-ting it and gath-er-ing it in-to sheaves.
• The slow rumble of waggon wheels goes down the road, close to the lawn, but concealed by the trees, against whose boughs the sheaves of the load rustle as they go past.
• It is made to span the block, and is secured partly by the pin or bolt upon which the sheaves run, and partly by the bottom bolt, which unites the cheeks of the block.
• Next day the crop would be bound in sheaves and stacked for a brief curing.
• From the bosom of the water rose sheaves of liquid jets by hundreds.
• Sheaves of sparks and red ashes flew from the funnels, shining in the atmosphere like stars.
• And then Phoebe ran up to him and dragged him off to where Sam Lenine stood examining some of the ears he had picked on his way past the sheaves.
• The boats were high-riding, graceful and finished at head and stern with sheaves of carved lotus.
• The most ancient we read of was that of driving cattle over the sheaves in order to trample it out.
• Where the battlements had once frowned, now stood sheaves of smiling corn, golden and nodding in the wind and the sun.
• Surtaine lay many sheaves of paper, in rigid order.
• Blocks for gun-tackles should have pins of hardened copper, turned smooth, and sheaves of lignum-vitae without bouching.
• One may buy small sheaves of it in the Taunton market-place on early summer Saturdays.
• The sheaves thus made are allowed to lie on the ground undisturbed until they are ready for being drawn.
• Because of this, it may be wise, frequently, to refrain from lifting the sheaves for loading in the middle of the day.
• When cut by either method the sheaves should be made small, so that they will dry out quickly.
• The fields were full of waving grain, and busy servants were reaping it and gathering it up to bind into sheaves.
• I suppose there is some good done by public preaching, but it is the preacher who is ready, in the face-to-face opportunity, who comes home laden with sheaves.
• Large sheaves of bamboo alone rose above the grass, and so high that even Hercules was not a head over them.
• Upon the upper part of each tower were armed men who worked machines casting sheaves of arrows and other missiles.
• The truth was simply that Vetch had glanced at her without seeing her, as he might have glanced at the gilded sheaves of wheat on a picture frame.
• At the close of a beautiful autumn day, when the laborers had bound their sheaves and were going to their homes, a traveler was seen coming with a firm step from the forest.

Similar words containing SHEAVE without suffix s

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