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noun

Sheeting n.

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

(Hydraul. Engin.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.

verb

Sheet v. t. (past & past part. sheeted; pres. part. sheeting)

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."

To expand, as a sheet. "The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky."

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

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Etymology of 'Sheeting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sheeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... docks, whence their cargo was borne overseas in the sea-going tramps, or, of course, taking equally long strings to the Seine for Rouen and Paris. It was mud and cinders underfoot, and it was walled off with corrugated-iron sheeting and barbed wire from the attentions of some hundreds of Belgian refugees who lived along the canal and parallel roads in every conceivable kind of resting-place, from ancient bathing-vans to broken-down railway-trucks. But there were trees along the canal and ...

— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

... thick, the nails many and formidable. A long time he battered and battered in vain with his rocks, but, after an hour or so, he succeeded in splintering his way through the tough pine. His exertions did not end here; an inner sheeting of tin caused him to frown; more furiously he attacked this with sharp bits of coral, cutting and bruising his hands. Unmindful of pain, he was enabled at length to pull back a portion of the protecting metal and reveal the contents of the packing-case. In his ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

... on the 17th of January 1740-1, twenty-seven yards and an half of yard-wide sheeting linnen, and some smaller articles, was sold at Mr. James Gordon's shop in Boston, and deliver'd to one capt. Stevens, as appears by said Gordon's book; and thro' some mistake in keeping his books, said articles are charg'd ...

— The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England • Various

... the oxen consisted of blankets and bedding and a small, light tent of their sheeting about four by six feet in size. We rose early and worked hard till about the middle of the forenoon getting all things ready. They had been in a state of masterly inactivity so long in this one camp that they were anxious to leave ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... the knife of a diver in the belly of a shark. A cold wind blew from the riven mass. Then came the hiss of descending waters. There was neither thunder nor lightning, only the steady rush of the rain that glazed the slippery trail, hid the opposing cliff from sight, sheeting it with dull silver, pounding, pitting, beating at them as they plodded doggedly on, almost blinded, trusting to the instinct ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

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