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Definition:
1. a bundle of cereal plants, such as wheat, rye, etc. They are stacked together on-end in stooks.
2. (by extension) a bundle or stack of paper, hair, etc.

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the bailiff [...] began immediately talking of the urgent necessity of carrying the remaining sheaves of rye the next day, and of sending the men out for the second ploughing, so that Levin felt that this was not the time for discussing it.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Mr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers; at the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk,

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Sometimes the tithe was compounded for a fixed rent in money; sometimes for a given number of sheaves, or measures of wine per acre.

Edward Jackson Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution
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