Garbe — meaning in English

English meaning

• reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
• sheaf noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
• truss noun A supportive belt or bandage worn to hold a hernia in place.

Senses

Garbe is used for these senses in English:

• amurca The sediment in olive oil.
• reap A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
• sheaf A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
• sheaf (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:
• truss An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
• truss (obsolete) A bundle; a package.

reap — full definition

1. verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
2. verb To receive something, often as a consequence or reward, of earlier effort.

sheaf — full definition

1. noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
2. noun Any collection of things bound together.
3. noun A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
4. noun A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

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