Garbe — meaning in English

English meaning

• reap verb To cut and gather a crop, especially grain.
• sheaf noun A bundle of cut wheat, rye or other grain stalks, tied together.
• 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 bundle of cut wheat, rye or other grain stalks, tied together.
2. noun Any set of items tied or gathered together.
3. noun Enough arrows to fill one quiver, or an archer's full allowance.
4. noun A set of arrows, traditionally twenty-four.

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