" sheet "

[Noun]  | "sheet" | \ ˈshēt \

1: a broad piece of cloth; especially : bedsheet

2: sail

3: a usually rectangular piece of paper; especially : one manufactured for printing

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English shete, from Old English scēte, scīete; akin to Old English scēat edge, Old High German scōz flap, skirt;

[Noun]  | "sheet" 

1: a rope or chain that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

2: the spaces at either end of an open boat not occupied by thwarts : foresheets and stern sheets together

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English shete, from Old English scēata lower corner of a sail; akin to Old English scȳte sheet;

[Noun]  | "sheet anchor" 

1: a large strong anchor formerly carried in the waist of a ship and used as a spare in an emergency

2: something that constitutes a main support or dependence especially in danger

Origin: 1626 ;

 Alteration of earlier shoot anchor, from Middle English shute anker;

[Noun]  | "sheet bend" 

1: a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye

Origin: circa 1823 ;

[Noun]  | "sheet cake" 

1: a large, one-layer, usually frosted cake

Origin: 1862 ;

[Noun]  | "sheet glass" 

1: glass made in large sheets directly from the furnace or by making a cylinder and then flattening it

Origin: 1768 ;

[Noun]  | "sheet lightning" 

1: lightning in diffused or sheet form due to reflection and diffusion by the clouds and sky

Origin: 1794 ;

[Adjective]  | "sheet" 

1: rolled or spread out in a sheet

2: of, relating to, or concerned with the making of sheet metal

Origin: 1582 ;

[Verb]  | "sheet" 

1: to cover with a sheet

2: to furnish with sheets

3: to form into sheets

Origin: 1606 ;

[Verb]  | "sheet" 

1: to move or set (a sail) by manipulation of a sheet

Origin: 1925 ;

[Noun]  | "sheet" 

[Noun]  | "fly sheet" 

[Verb]  | "sheet"