Sheeted

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. To expand, as a sheet.
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              The star shot flew from the welkin blue,
              As it fell from the sheeted sky.      --J. R. Drake.
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     {To sheet home} (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail
        is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.
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