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- English Word Sheer Definition Clean; quite; at once.
- English Word Sheer Definition To shear.
- English Word Sheer Definition To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
- English Word Sheer Definition The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
- English Word Sheer Definition The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
- English Word Sheer Definition A turn or change in a course.
- English Word Sheer Definition Shears See Shear.
- English Word Sheered Definition of Sheer
- English Word Sheering Definition of Sheer
- English Word Sheerly Definition At once; absolutely.
- English Word Sheerwater Definition The shearwater.
- English Word Sheet Definition In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
- English Word Sheet Definition A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
- English Word Sheet Definition the book itself.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad expanse of water, or the like.
- English Word Sheet Definition A sail.
- English Word Sheet Definition An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.