Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHEET
SHEET, v.t.
- To furnish with sheets. [Little used.]
- To fold in a sheet. [Little used.] – Shak.
- To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin. When snow the pasture sheets. – Shak. To sheet home, is to haul home a sheet, or extend the sail till the clew is close to the sheet-block.
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