sheeting
被單布;金屬板的打造
Sheet, v. t. [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. “The sheeted dead.” “When snow the pasture sheets.”
2. To expand, as a sheet.
The star shot flew from the welkin blue,
As it fell from the sheeted sky. --J. R. Drake.
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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Sheet·ing, n.
1. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.
2. Hydraul. Engin. A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
3. The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.
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sheeting
n : fabric from which bed sheets are made