[GreyFriar]

A ‘sheave’ is a bundle of wheat stalks that have not had the grain removed. It is from the old days before combines, when the wheat was cut with a sythe, then bundled into armloads using a wheat stalk to tie the bundle and then taken to the threshing floor.

And the kids think that the shepards were dogs that came in from the hills, not know they were the folks who herded the sheep.

[Fiji Hill]

This quote is even more relevant to the song "Bringing in the Sheaves":

"He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him."--Psalm 126:6

[mdmathis6]

See also my post 60.

[MayflowerMadam]

“A ‘sheave’ is a bundle of wheat stalks that have not had the grain removed.”

The bundle is a “sheaf”; plural bundles is “sheaves”.