sheaves

Surrounding the eagle, inside the legends, is a nearly concentric partial wreath of grain sheaves, tied at the bottom with a double-looped ribbon.

Morgan Dollar, 1878-1921 : Coin Guide 2009

And all this proven in sheaves of documents and letters which he shook in my face!

Dominion of Canada Day Luncheon 1983

They Report 2800 Sheaves at the last and before 2700 the first cleaning up, the next 2600 in all. 8100 sheaves. which averages about 3 Bushel of wheat to the hundred sheaves which is considered a poor yeald.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

Katherine followed them out upon the veranda, where she stood leaning against the balustrade and watched their forms melt away in the darkness, a thrill of loving gratitude in her heart, for, were they not indeed her "sheaves"?

Katherine's Sheaves Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

The homeliness of the 'sheaves' is in striking contrast with the grandeur of the 'sun, moon, and stars.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart," or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart," or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

He has sheaves of academic awards and more than a dozen U.S. patents.

A Roboticist's Trip From Mines to the Moon James R. Hagerty 2011

By the time the questions arrived, a team of Brussels monitors was already ensconced in Rome, burrowing into government accounts and sifting through sheaves of statistics.

Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward' 2011

"Well, first of all, of course, music –" she delves inside and brings out sheaves of pages dense with black notations "– some Wagner, of course, here is Die Meistersinger and also the Wesendonck Lieder which I performed last year at Leipzig, and then a part in a new opera by Strauss –" She is so practical, so humble in fact, bending over, rummaging in the vast leather case.

Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

Sheaves were a mathematical bundling system of sorts, also developed during an incarceration: Jean Leray came up with the system while he was a prisoner of war.

The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician Condé Nast 2022