- transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer silk.
- unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock.
- unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense.
- extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock.
- bright; shining.
- clear; completely; clean: ran sheer into the thick of battle.
- perpendicularly; vertically; down or up very steeply.
- a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile.
- to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve.
- to cause to sheer.
- to give sheer to (a hull).
- a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve.
- the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of a vessel at the main deck or bulwarks.
- the position in which a ship at anchor is placed to keep it clear of the anchor.
- perpendicular; very steep
- (of textiles) so fine as to be transparent
- absolute; unmitigated
- bright or shining
- steeply or perpendicularly
- completely or absolutely
- any transparent fabric used for making garments
- to deviate or cause to deviate from a course
- to avoid an unpleasant person, thing, topic, etc
- the upward sweep of the deck or bulwarks of a vessel
- the position of a vessel relative to its mooring
