The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SHEAVES
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What does SHEAVES mean?
SHEAVES noun- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- A sheave.
- An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
- A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
- A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.