A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / These broken limbs again into one body.
A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.
From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”). Cognates Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), Germ...
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They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.