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Definition of Sheer
Sheer Sheer Sheer, adv.
Clean; quite; at once. [Obs.] --Milton.
Sheer Sheer Sheer, v. t. [See Shear.]
To shear. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Sheer Sheer Sheer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sheered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sheering.] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See
Shear.]
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.
To sheer off, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move
away.
To sheer up, to approach obliquely.
Sheer Sheer Sheer, n.
1. (Naut.)
(a) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck,
gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from
the side.
(b) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and
swinging clear of it.
2. A turn or change in a course.
Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore.
--Cooper.
3. pl. Shears See Shear.
Sheer batten (Shipbuilding), a long strip of wood to guide
the carpenters in following the sheer plan.
Sheer boom, a boom slanting across a stream to direct
floating logs to one side.
Sheer hulk. See Shear hulk, under Hulk.
Sheer plan, or Sheer draught (Shipbuilding), a projection
of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane
passing through the middle line of the vessel.
Sheer pole (Naut.), an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just
above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines.
Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale
on the top side. --Totten.
To break sheer (Naut.), to deviate from sheer, and risk
fouling the anchor.
