SHEAVES

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.

Example: "A sheaf of paper"

A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

A sheave.

An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.

A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.