Sheet

1. A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
2. A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
3. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
4. A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
5. A broad expanse of water, or the like.
6. A sail.
7. A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
A sheet in the wind ,
half drunk.
Both sheets in the wind ,
very drunk.
In sheets ,
lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; -- said especially of printed sheets.
Sheet bend (Naut.),
a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye.
Sheet lightning, Sheet piling ,
etc. See under Lightning, Piling, etc.

1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
2. To expand, as a sheet.
To sheet home (Naut.),
to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.