Sheaf (agriculture)
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne. The sheaves are put together into a stook.
A sheaf of grain on a plaque
A sheaf is one of the large bundles in which cereal plants are bound after reaping so they are convenient for threshing out the grain.
In heraldry a wheat sheaf is called a garb.[1]
See also
- Omer (unit), a Biblical measure of volume of grain.
References
- ↑ "garb" at Wiktionary. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
External links
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