sheaf
noun
[ ʃiːf ]
• a bundle of grain stalks laid lengthways and tied together after reaping.
sheaf
verb
• bundle into sheaves.
• "the corn and barley had to be sheafed and stooked"
Origin:
Old English scēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoof ‘sheaf’ and German Schaub ‘wisp of straw’, also to the verb shove.
