adjective. Thin, fine, and translucent: synonym: airy.

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adjective. Completely such, without qualification or exception.

adjective. Free from admixture or adulterants; unmixed.

adjective. Considered or operating apart from anything else.

adjective. Almost perpendicular; steep: synonym: steep.

adverb. Almost perpendicularly.

adverb. Completely; altogether.

noun. One that is sheer, such as a curtain.

intransitive & transitive verb. To swerve or cause to swerve from a course.

noun. A swerving or deviating course.

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noun. The upward curve or amount of upward curve of the longitudinal lines of a ship's hull as viewed from the side.

noun. The position in which a ship at anchor is maintained in order to keep it clear of the anchor.

Pure; clear; bright; shining.

Uncombined with anything else; simple; mere; bare; by itself.

Absolute; utter; downright: as, sheer nonsense or ignorance; sheer waste; sheer stupidity.

Straight up or straight down; perpendicular; precipitous; unobstructed: as, a sheer descent.

Very thin and delicate; diaphanous: especially said of cambric or muslin.

An obsolete spelling of shear.

Nautical, to swerve or deviate from a line or course; turn aside or away, as for the purpose of avoiding collision or other danger: as, to sheer off from a rock.

Quite; right; straight; clean.

To make pure; clear; purify.

noun. The rise from a horizontal plane of the longitudinal lines of a ship as seen in looking along its side.

noun. The position in which a ship at single anchor is placed to keep her clear of the anchor.

noun. The paint-strake or sheer-strake of a vessel.

noun. A curving course or sweep; a deviation or divergence from a particular course.

noun. A light scaffold, usually with three inclined legs, on which miners stand in drilling to get above the drill-rod.

adverb. Clean; quite; at once.

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

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

noun. A turn or change in a course.

noun. Shears See Shear.

noun. a long strip of wood to guide the carpenters in following the sheer plan.

noun. a boom slanting across a stream to direct floating logs to one side.

noun. See Shear hulk, under Hulk.

noun. a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel.

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noun. an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines.

noun. the strake under the gunwale on the top side.

noun. to deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.

adjective. Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

adjective. Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics.

adjective. Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright.

adjective. Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

intransitive verb. To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve.

intransitive verb. to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away.

intransitive verb. to approach obliquely.

transitive verb. To shear.

"Callie walked slowly in a direct line to her mother, her hands on her hips, her expression sheer disappointment."