Crossword clues for sheeted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheet \Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheeting.]
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.''
--Shak.-
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.
Wiktionary
1 To be covered by a sheet of cloth or paper or other similar material. 2 (Road haulage) To be secured by a special tarpaulin v
(en-past of: sheet)
Usage examples of "sheeted".
White foam sheeted before its breast as the plesiosaurus headed straight for us.
As soon as they were sheeted home Bucephalas picked up speed and began to overhaul Endymion.
Cugel dropped the blue silk mainsail from its brails and sheeted home the clews.
Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
Descending to the midship deck, Cugel dropped the blue silk mainsail from its brails and sheeted home the clews.
The jib was backwinded, sheeted to the windward side, in effect, blowing the bow down off the wind while the main and the mizzen were trying to put it up wind.
Even so, Jack dared not risk the same reproof in the face of the fleet, and the Worcester was well under way, her best bower catted, her topsails sheeted home (though faintly), and her topgallants loose in the brails by the time the gig crossed her wake under a press of canvas and shot up her starboard side.
But the sailmakers were dead and no man would or could have sewn up these ghastly charred heaps in the weighted and sheeted canvas.
The wind speed dropped to a relatively benign Force six, the broken and confused seas of the early afternoon resolved themselves, once again, into a recognizable wave pattern, the San Andreas rode on a comparatively even keel, the sheeted ice on the decks no longer offered a threat and the superstructure had quite ceased its creaking and groaning.
It is by definition a solitary vice, and all the public usually gets to see is a sheeted figure being carried out to the wagon.
One side of the plane was already thickly sheeted in drift ice, and all the windows were completely blanked off, made opaque, by rime frost.
NUMA Headquartem A thirty-story tubular structure sheeted in green reflective glass that sits on an East Washington hill above the Potomac River.
A thirty-story tubular structure sheeted in green reflective glass that sits on an East Washington hill above the Potomac River.
Topgallants and an outer jib broke out aboard the frigate, but the fore-topgallant split as it was sheeted home, and before the agitated Niobes could blunt up the Weasel was on her starboard beam, wronging her cruelly, taking the wind right out of her sails.
But the bottom of the bowl is filled with deep drifts of light, dry, granular snow, sheeted with a hard layer of windslab.