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Meanings of last sheaf in English
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Usage of last sheaf in English
1
The corn of the last sheaf is often used to make it.
2
The men thresh the last sheaf till it is reduced to chopped straw.
3
Often the last sheaf is called the Old Woman or the Old Man.
4
He shoved in a last sheaf of hay then gave up.
5
We will give her a regal harvest-supper, and enthrone her on the last sheaf.
6
At Dürrenbüchig and about Mosbach in Baden the last sheaf is also called the Goat.
7
Again, the last sheaf is itself called the Goat.
8
So they did again and again, until the last sheaf had been trodden under foot.
9
Thus in Poland the last sheaf is commonly called the Baba, that is, the Old Woman.
10
Sometimes the last sheaf is called, not the Corn-mother, but the Harvest-mother or the Great Mother.
11
For amongst the neighbouring Esthonians, as we have seen, the last sheaf is called the Rye-boar.
12
Orris Erwin, through though smaller and slighter physically, worked away until the last sheaf was exhausted.
13
In some parts of Holstein the last sheaf is dressed in woman's clothes and called the Corn-mother.
14
In some parts of Bohemia the last sheaf is made up in human form and called the Buffalo-bull.
15
In the district of Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, they think that the Oats-goat is in the last sheaf of oats.
16
In this way they think that the Corn-wolf, who was lurking in the last sheaf, has been certainly killed.
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