Definition of Sheering

1. Verb. (present participle of sheer) ¹

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Definition of Sheering

1. sheer [v] - See also: sheer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheering

sheepshearers
sheepshearing
sheepshearings
sheepskin
sheepskin coat
sheepskins
sheepwalk
sheepwalks
sheepy
sheer
sheer(a)
sheered
sheerer
sheerest
sheering (current term)
sheerleg
sheerlegs
sheerly
sheerness
sheernesses
sheers
sheerwater
sheerwaters
sheesh
sheesha
sheet-erosion
sheet-metal
sheet-metal work

Literary usage of Sheering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"The sheering battens are of pitch pine, about 40 or 50 feet long, by 3 by f inch. ... Having placed the sheering battens to ax nicks on the frames ..."

2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1915)
"56561 A. sheering Future Bright for Eastern Shipyards. A report of increase in business and costs. 2500 w. Ir Age—Feb. 18, 1915. ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"... for the consequent collision occasioned by the sheering of the leading vessel.5 Where a flat boat, descending the river Mississippi, in broad daylight, ..."

4. Proceedings of the General Conference on Foreign Missions, Held at the (1879)
"The shortness of our time renders a limit of this kind absolutely essential. The Rev. MA sheering, MA, LL.B., of Benares, then Key. ..."

5. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1735)
"... or elle thic they were not carefully taken up. to : But I would by no means ad- viio the sheering them into Pyramids, (as is too often ..."

6. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture; Or, Theory and Practice Blended by John Willis Griffiths (1854)
"... —sheering in General—Its Intima. Connexion with the appearance of Vessels. After having completed our model, the first consideration is to determine the ..."

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