Meaning

• A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

• Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.

  "a sheaf of paper"

• A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

• A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

• A sheave.

• An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

Meaning

• To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

  "to sheaf wheat"

• To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.