Sheeptick
noun
1.
a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
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adjective, sheerer, sheerest. 1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings. 2. unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. 3. unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense. 4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock. 5. British Obsolete. bright; shining. adverb 6. clear; completely; quite: […]
- Sheerest
adjective, sheerer, sheerest. 1. transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics: sheer stockings. 2. unmixed with anything else: We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. 3. unqualified; utter: sheer nonsense. 4. extending down or up very steeply; almost completely vertical: a sheer descent of rock. 5. British Obsolete. bright; shining. adverb 6. clear; completely; quite: […]
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verb (used without object) 1. to deviate from a course, as a ship; swerve. verb (used with object) 2. to cause to sheer. 3. Shipbuilding. to give sheer to (a hull). noun 4. a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve. 5. Shipbuilding. the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of […]
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