sheet
verb
- to wrap or fold in a sheet
- rain very hard 1
noun
- a piece of paper
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʃiːt/ / /ʃit/
name
Etymology: From Old English sceat (“corner”).
- A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, previously in Petersfield parish (OS grid ref SU7524).
- A small village in Ludford parish, next to Ludlow, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5374).
noun
Etymology: A minced oath of shit.
- Euphemistic form of shit.
“This sheet is disgusting!”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).
- To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
“Remember to sheet the floor before you start painting.”
“Yea, like a stag, when snow the pasture sheets, / The barks of trees thou browsed'st.”
- To form into sheets.
- To pour heavily.
“We couldn't go out because the rain was sheeting down all day long.”
- To trim a sail using a sheet.