Sheet

Sheet - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
  
  
• (v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
  
  
• (v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
  
  
• (v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
  
  
• (v. t.) the book itself.
  
  
• (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
  
  
• (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
  
  
• (v. t.) A sail.
  
  
• (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  
  
• (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
  
  
• (v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
  
  
• (v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
  
  
• (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
  
  
• anchor (v. t.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
  
  
• anchor (v. t.) Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
  
  
• cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
  
  
• chain () A chain sheet cable.