Meaning & use
sheaf
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A bundle of things bound together, especially stalks of grain, or a collection of papers held or tied together.
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The farmer stacked sheaf after sheaf of wheat at the edge of the field.
She pulled a sheaf of old letters from the bottom of the drawer.
A note on using this word
Its plural form is 'sheaves'; while the grain-related sense is now mostly historical or rural, the general 'bundle of papers' sense is still common.
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