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Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne. Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine
A sheaf (/ʃiːf/; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sheaf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.