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sheet

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adj. rolled out in a sheet during the manufacturing process.
Ex. sheet steel.

sheet

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adj. sheetless.

sheet

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adj. sheetlike.

sheet

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crib note orsheet
1. a small piece of paper containing information from which students illicitly copy during a test.
2. any cribbing device.

sheet

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drag sail orsheet
a sea anchor equipped with a sail.

sheet

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expr. a sheet in the wind (or wind's eye), (Informal.) tipsy; drunk.
Ex. Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind's eye. But ... I was sober (Robert Louis Stevenson).

sheet

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expr. sheets, the space not occupied by thwarts at the bow or stern of an open boat.
Ex. The sheets are usually called either foresheets or sternsheets.

sheet

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expr. three sheets in the wind, (Informal.) very drunk.
Ex. He ... seldom went up to the town without coming down three sheets in the wind (Richard Henry Dana).

sheet

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noun a rope or chain that controls the angle at which a sail is set. It is attached to a lower or after corner of the sail.
Ex. Better change to heavy jib sheets (Newsweek).

sheet

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noun 1. a large piece of cloth, usually of linen or cotton, used to sleep on or under.
Ex. He drew the sheet up over his head as he trembled in bed while the lightning crackled and the thunder boomed.
2. a broad, thin piece of anything.

sheet

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sheet (1), noun, adjective, verb.

sheet

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sheet (2), noun, verb.
(Nautical.)

sheet

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v.i. to spread or flow in a sheet or layer.
Ex. The water sheeted down (Observer).

sheet

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v.t. sheet home, to stretch (a square sail) as flat as possible by pulling hard on the sheets fastened to it.
Ex. The topsails were let fall and sheeted home (Michael Scott).

sheet

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v.t. to furnish or cover with a sheet or layer.
Ex. a sheeted ghost (Longfellow). The river was sheeted with ice (Washington Irving).