sheaf

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

O, let me teach you how to knit again / This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / These broken limbs again into one body.

Ev’n while the Reaper fills his greedy hands, / And binds the golden Sheafs in brittle bands

Any collection of things bound together.

a sheaf of paper

Together the two men march up the aisle and mount the dais, and while Muspole shakes hands with the chairman and his lady, the major draws a sheaf of notes from a briefcase and lays them on the table.

A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case.

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows.

A sheave.

To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

to sheaf wheat

To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.