sheaving

But, from circumstances, the main portion of my harvest is still on the ground, ripe indeed and only waiting, a few for the sickle, but a large part only for the _sheaving_ and carting and housing-but from all this

English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

The Apostle is bent on sheaving the superiority of our Saviour's Priesthood to that of Aaron.

Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews." 1813-1888 1861

A third set of gleaners has been admitted from time immemorial, namely, the _Anser stipularis_, which feeds itself into plump condition for Michaelmas by picking up, from between the stubble, the corns which fell from the ears during reaping and sheaving.

Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

You could count thirty mowers in the same field, each followed by his partner, who did the sheaving ...

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The cable is about 200mm in diameter with armoured sheaving, with four cores made up of multiple copper strands.

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