sheaf Copy link Outline 1. mănĭpŭlus (a bundle of hay or cut corn that may be carried in the hand)2. fascis, is, m. (any bundle of twigs, straw, etc.)3. merges, ĭtis, f. (v. rare and poet.) • sheaf: 1. mănĭpŭlus (a bundle of hay or cut corn that may be carried in the hand): to tie up sheaves, manipulos obligare, Col. 11, 2, 40: also m. vincire, alligare, id. 2. fascis, is, m. (any bundle of twigs, straw, etc.): sheaves of straw and twigs, fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15 v. bundle. 3. merges, ĭtis, f. (v. rare and poet.): Virg. G. 2, 517 (aut Cerealis mergite culmi).
SHEAF Copy link • SHEAFfascis (bound together in order to be carried; e.g., stramentorum, Caes.): diminutively, fasciculus: manipulus (a bundle not too large to be carried by hand). To bind sheaves, fasces colligare, vincire.