sheaves

How to use sheaves in a sentence

• Sometimes dumb-bells, compact sheaves of fine needles, and irregular rhizome forms are seen (Fig. 40).

  A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd

• No additional feed-water was required during an ordinary day's work to thrash 1500 sheaves of wheat with 168 lbs.

  Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick

• At the foot of the mainmast on each side is a brass fair-lead fitted with ten or twelve sheaves (figs. 13 and 14).

  Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.

• They were of elm, with lignum vit roller sheaves, and were bound inside with iron, and had swivel eyes.

  Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British Government

• Great sheaves of shadow and darkness are gathered up, trembling in the far depths of the sky.

  Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo