sheaf

A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine.

A collection of items held or bound together.

An archer’s quiver.

To gather and bind into a bundle.

A bundle or collection.

Specifically

A quantity of the stalks of wheat, rye, oats, or barley bound together; a bundle of stalks or straw.

A bundle of twenty-four arrows, the number furnished to an archer and carried by him at one time.

A bundle of steel containing thirty gads or ingots.

In geometry, a doubly infinite manifold of curves or surfaces comprising all which fulfil certain general conditions and also pass through certain fixed points; especially, a manifold of points or planes passing through one fixed point.