sheet (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A broad piece of linen for bed furniture, or for a winding-sheet1. linteum (any piece of linen cloth)2. late, sindōn, ŏnis, f.II. A sheet of paper; plăgŭlaIII. Fig.IV. In nautical language • sheet (subs.): I. A broad piece of linen for bed furniture, or for a winding-sheet: 1. linteum (any piece of linen cloth): v. linen. 2. late, sindōn, ŏnis, f.: Vulg. Mar. xiv. 52 (explained by Wahl as, linteum tenue, majus, quadratum, quo Orientales maxime aestate et noctis tempore uti solebant, et quo involvebantur etiam mortuorum corpora a description exactly applicable to a sheet). II. A sheet of paper; plăgŭla: the s.s are dried in the sun and joined together, siccantur sole p. atque inter se junguntur, Plin. 13, 12, 23. Used in mod. Lat. for proof-sheets: q. v. III. Fig.: any expanded surface; a sheet of metal, lāmĭna (v. plate): a s. of water, lacus, stagnum, piscīna: v. lake, pond. IV. In nautical language: a rope fastening the corner of a sail: pes, pĕdis, m.: to veer out one s., pedem facere, Virg. Aen. 5, 830: to let fly the s.s, pedes proferre, Plin. 2, 47, 48.