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a sheet or sceata in Anglo saxon was at first a sail or the lower part of a sail at least& indeed this sheet has the same source as a bed sheet
the rope that controls a sail was known in those days as a sheet line or sceatline
but by the early 14th century sheet lines began to lose their lines & became just sheets
later sails stopped being called sheets & began to be called sails likely to distinguish them from their sheets
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