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sheaved

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The past tense of sheave, meaning bound, gathered, or bundled together into sheaves, typically referring to harvested grain or collected ideas.

Detailed Definition
Sheaved is an old or rare form meaning tied up, bundled, or enclosed. In this poem it describes the mingled arrows being gathered together, using a word most modern readers would not know at once.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Mingled arrows each one sheaved” — Walter Scott, “Marmion”; A warrior sheaves his sword, returning it to its scabbard; The knight sheaved the blade after battle; Unlike “sheathed,” “sheaved” is an older poetic form for putting a weapon away
Additional Notes
The quoted line uses sheaved in an archaic sense that is not common in modern English.; Found in the poem, The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
Also Known As
bundled gathered sheafed harvested gatherèd
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