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.
Usage examples of "to sheet home".
Hands were aloft loosing sail ready to sheet home, while the clank of the capstan told how other men were heaving the cable short, and Hornblower was standing on the portside gangway with Mr Wales the carpenter, looking over at the white houses of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.