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Definition of Sheafing
1. sheaf [v] - See also: sheaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheafing
Literary usage of Sheafing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The manual delivery is but little used now except on small holdings or when a
mowing machine is converted into a reaper by being fitted with a sheafing ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"By these the grain is elevated and conveyed to the sheafing ... The mechanism on
the sheafing platform collects the grain as it is being constantly poured ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"The " Universal Harvester" is likely to be a valuable machine for light-crop
districts, and when used for side- sheafing clears, as we believe, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"This »ystem is called ' Cap-sheafing.' The difference in the time occupied by it
and the ordinary method is very little, and is far more than ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1809)
"The cost of sheafing mowing does not exceed ss 6d. per acre, and the practice is
worthy the attention of other counties. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: From by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, George Price, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1818)
"The substance of this custom is, that if the farmer gathers in his barley, &c.
in the usual manner in cocks, without sheafing it, it pays the tenth in the ..."
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