sheeted, ppl. a.
(ˈʃiːtɪd)
[f. sheet n.1 or v.1]
1. a. Wrapped in a sheet, esp. a winding-sheet: applied to the dead and ghosts.
| 1604 Shakes. Ham. i. i. 115 (Qo. 2) The sheeted dead Did squeake and gibber in the Roman streets. 1630 H. Lord Relig. Persees 50 Shrowded and sheeted carkeyses. 1786 S. Rogers Ode Superst. i. ii. 9 The sheeted spectre, rising from the tomb. 1807–8 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 88 Church⁓yard tales of sheeted ghosts. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lv, He saw Gwendolen..pale as one of the sheeted dead. |
b. Enveloped in a sheet or sheets for protection against injury, cold, etc.
| 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 104, 1 sheeted box containing books. 1840 Haliburton Letter Bag i. 7 Sheeted, blanketed, and quilted, I remain enveloped in the drapery of my bed. 1884 Longman's Mag. Apr. 610 A string of some thirty sheeted horses are walking round and round. 1896 Idler Mar. 277 The paltry gas-jets on the stage..were just sufficient to show the sheeted boxes and a few of the front rows of stalls. |
2. In the form of a sheet; expanded or spread out like a sheet: chiefly of rain, snow, lightning.
| 1796 New Ann. Reg. 164 Thro' plashy glade Where crackles, at each step, the sheeted ice. 1798 Coleridge Wand. Cain Wks. (1907) 345 The sheeted lightning. 1811 Scott Don Roderick ii. xxxvi, Then sheeted rain burst down. 1847 Longfellow Evang. i. v. 100 The sheeted smoke with flashes of flame intermingled. 1851 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace ii. i, The two armies lay down amidst the sheeted snow. 1904 R. Bridges Demeter 551 The useless poppy in sheeted scarlet. |
3. Of cattle: Having a broad band of white round the body. (Cf. sheet-cow, sheet n.1 12 b.)
| 1834 Youatt Cattle (L.U.K.) 28 They are called sheeted oxen. The head, the neck, the shoulders, and the hind parts appear as if they were uncovered, while there is a sheet fairly and perfectly thrown over the barrel. 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! v, That sheeted heifer of Prowse's. 1858 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIX. ii. 389 In colour usually ‘sheeted’ black and white. |
4. Printing. (See quot.)
| 1888 Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Sheeted, this expression is used when heavily printed work has to be placed sheet by sheet between other sheets to prevent off-set of ink. |
5. Geol. Of rock (esp. granite) or a rock formation: having been divided into thin laminæ; sheeted zone, a belt of highly fissured rock associated with a fault, the fissures freq. being occupied by veins of minerals.
| 1903 Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey No. 213. 99 The granite is sheeted near the veins, the planes of sheeting being parallel to the veins themselves. 1905 H. Ries Econ. Geol. xvii. 339 (caption) Ore along sheeted zone. Ibid. 340 Composite veins in sheeted basalt dikes. 1939 W. H. Emmons et al. Geol. (ed. 2) xvii. 425 Some veins fill single openings..others fill closely spaced parallel openings, which are sheeted zones. 1943 Jrnl. Geol. LI. 82/1 During the glacial epoch these sheeted granites..must have been easily plucked and quarried by the advancing ice. 1974 Nature 29 Nov. 375/2 Shattered pebbles and sheeted bedrock are common weathering phenomena in most modern deserts. |