Sheet

shet, n. Any broad, uninterrupted expanse; a broad piece of cloth used as a part of bed furniture, next to the body; a broad piece of paper, folded muor unfolded; a single signature of a book or pamphlet; a newspaper; a broad expanse of water, etc.; a broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance. (Naut.) A rope fastened to the lower correner of a sail, to extend and retain it in a particular situation, —v. t. To fold in a sheet; to cover as with oil; linger or ink, then, boNbON, chair, get. a sheet; to draw or expand, as a sheet. — ing, n. Cloth for sheets.— Sheef-anch'or, n. The largest anchor of a ship, sometimes the uge to prevent the ship from going ashore; the support: last refuge tor safety. 392