adv clean; quite; at once.
2. sheer ·noun a turn or change in a course.
3. sheer ·vi bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
4. sheer ·vt to shear.
5. sheer ·noun shears ·see shear.
6. sheer ·vi stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
7. sheer ·vi very thin or transparent;
applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
8. sheer ·noun the position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
9. sheer ·vi being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
10. sheer ·noun the longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
11. sheer ·vi to decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.