Definition of "sheaf" [sheaf]

• A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine. (noun)
• A collection of items held or bound together: a sheaf of printouts. (noun)
• An archer's quiver. (noun)
• To gather and bind into a bundle. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Section 33.9 is six pages of Penrose trying to explain "sheaf cohomology" whose ideas "… are fairly sophisticated mathematically, but actually very natural.""
• "Sometimes he prefers good people to places of trust and honour (v. 7): With kings are they on the throne, and every sheaf is made to bow to theirs."
• "10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst."