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Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. |
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Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as,
sheer muslin. |
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Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere;
downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. |
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Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. |
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Clean; quite; at once. |
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To shear. |
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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. |
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The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and
lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. |
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The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and
swinging clear of it. |
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A turn or change in a course. |
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Shears See Shear. |