Meanings (ES + gloss)
atada • atado • gavilla • haz • mies
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands
O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / These broken limbs again into one body.
atada • atado
Any collection of things bound together.
Together the two men march up the aisle and mount the dais, and while Muspole shakes hands with the chairman and his lady, the major draws a sheaf of notes from a briefcase and lay…
a sheaf of paper