Dictionary entry

Sheet (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sheet, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n.Sheeting.] 1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. “The sheeted dead.” “When snow the pasture sheets.” Shak.

2. To expand, as a sheet.

The star shot flew from the welkin blue,

As it fell from the sheeted sky. J. R. Drake.

To sheet home(Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.