Sheaf

(1) A bundle of ripe corn bound up in the field; the device a umed by Alfonso d’Avalos, when he was made captain-general of the army of Charles V., with the motto implying ince ant devotion to his work,—that, as soon as one harvest is reaped, its succe or must be sown. (2) A bunch of twenty-four arrows, enough to fill a quiver.