Very thin or transparent.
Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
Downright; complete; pure.
I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
Clean; completely; at once.
Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer.
A sheer curtain or fabric.
Use sheers to maximize natural light.
The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
To swerve from a course.
I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
Obsolete spelling of shear.
A surname.
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middl...
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So thick, our navy scarce could sheer their way