sheeting
n. 铺被单, 覆盖, 被单, 阔幅布, 薄膜, 压片, 挡板, 板栅, 护墙板, 护堤板



sheeting
[ noun ]
fabric from which bed sheets are made
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Sheeting \Sheet"ing\, n.
1. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is
sometimes made of double width.

2. (Hydraul. Engin.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of
metal) for protecting an embankment.

3. The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces;
also, material made into sheets.


Sheet \Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sheeted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sheeting}.]
1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover
with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. ``The sheeted dead.''
``When snow the pasture sheets.'' --Shak.

2. To expand, as a sheet.

The star shot flew from the welkin blue,
As it fell from the sheeted sky. --J. R. Drake.

{To sheet home} (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail
is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.