Sheerlegs
noun, (usually used with a plural verb)
1.
shear (def 16).
noun
1.
(functioning as sing) a device for lifting heavy weights consisting of two or more spars lashed together at the upper ends from which a lifting tackle is suspended Also called shears
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- Sheerly
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: […]
- Sheerness
noun 1. a seaport in N Kent, in SE England on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames: government dockyards. noun 1. a port and resort in SE England, in N Kent at the junction of the Medway estuary and the Thames: administratively part of Queenborough in Sheppey since 1968
- Sheer-plan
noun, Naval Architecture. 1. a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- Sheers
noun, (usually used with a plural verb) 1. shear (def 16). 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 […]
- Shees
noun 1. sídh. noun, plural sídhe [shee] /ʃi/ (Show IPA). Irish Folklore. 1. a mound or hill in which fairies live. 2. a fairy. 3. sídhe, the race of fairies.