"Sheer" is a word in ENGLISH

To shear.

Shears See Shear.

Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as,
sheer muslin.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and
lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and
swinging clear of it.

A turn or change in a course.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere;
downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

Clean; quite; at once.

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.

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.