SHEET

I. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scīete; akin to Old English scēat edge, Old High German scōz flap, skirt Date: before 12th century 1. a broad piece of cloth, sail 1a(1), 2. a. a usually rectangular piece of paper, a rectangular piece of heavy paper with a plant specimen mounted on it , a printed signature for a book especially before it has been folded, cut, or bound, a newspaper, periodical, or occasional publication , the unseparated postage stamps printed by one impression of a plate on a single piece of paper, a broad stretch or surface of something , a suspended or moving expanse (as of fire or rain), 5. a portion of something that is thin in comparison to its length and breadth, a flat baking pan of tinned metal , a surface or part of a surface in which it is possible to pass from any one point of it to any other without leaving the surface , ~like adjective II. adjective Date: 1582 rolled or spread out in a ~, of, relating to, or concerned with the making of ~ metal, III. verb Date: 1606 transitive verb to cover with a ~ , to furnish with ~s, to form into ~s, intransitive verb to fall, spread, or flow in a ~ , ~er noun IV. noun Etymology: Middle English shete, from Old English scēata lower corner of a sail; akin to Old English scȳte ~ Date: 13th century a rope or chain that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind, the spaces at either end of an open boat not occupied by thwarts ; fore~s and stern ~s together, V. transitive verb Date: 1925 to move or set (a sail) by manipulation of a ~