Sheet — Defs

01 n. In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

1.
In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
“He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners.” — Acts x. 10, 11.

“If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets.” — Shak.
2.
A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
“To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer.” — Waterland.
3.
A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.(Geol.)
4.
A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.(Naut.)

Phrases & compounds

A sheet in the wind — half drunk.

Both sheets in the wind — very drunk.

In sheets — lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; -- said especially of printed sheets.

Sheet bend — a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye.

Sheet lightning — See under Lightning, Piling, etc.

02 v. t. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

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.
2.
To expand, as a sheet.
“The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky.” — J. R. Drake.

Phrases & compounds

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