'To sheet home' definitions:
Definition of 'To sheet home'
From: GCIDE
- Sheet \Sheet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sheeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheeting.]
- 1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To expand, as a sheet. [1913 Webster]
- The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky. --J. R. Drake. [1913 Webster]
- To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible. [1913 Webster]