"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.
He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was desire.
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The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
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