Applied in the United States to fabrics of cotton or silk; as, sheer muslin; meaning very thin, clear, or transparent.
·adv Clean; quite; at once. II. Sheer ·noun A turn or change in a course. III. Sheer ·vi Bright; c...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-af...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame. ...
Pieces of plank covering the timber-heads round the ship; also, the gunwale or covering-board. The s...
A batten stretched horizontally along the shrouds, and seized firmly above each of their dead-eyes, ...
In ship-building, a section supposed to be cut by a plane passing through the middle line of the kee...
An old ship fitted with sheers, &c., and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vesse...
Middle the rope, and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the oth...
The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...
Synonymous with ram-line (which see). ...
The draught of the side of a proposed ship, showing the length, depth, rake, water-lines, &c. ...
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...
A drift-sail. ...
Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-por...
When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...
To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...
To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object. ...
To approach a ship or other object in an oblique direction. ...
To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...