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- English Word Sheepshank Definition A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
- English Word Sheepshead Definition A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
- English Word Sheepskin Definition The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
- English Word Sheepskin Definition A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
- English Word Sheepsplit Definition A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
- English Word Sheepy Definition Resembling sheep; sheepish.
- English Word Sheer Definition Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
- English Word Sheer Definition Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
- English Word Sheer Definition Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
- English Word Sheer Definition Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
- English Word Sheer Definition Clean; quite; at once.
- English Word Sheer Definition To shear.
- English Word Sheer Definition 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.
- English Word Sheer Definition The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
- English Word Sheer Definition The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
- English Word Sheer Definition A turn or change in a course.
- English Word Sheer Definition Shears See Shear.
- English Word Sheered Definition of Sheer
- English Word Sheering Definition of Sheer
- English Word Sheerly Definition At once; absolutely.
- English Word Sheerwater Definition The shearwater.
- English Word Sheet Definition In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
- English Word Sheet Definition A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
- English Word Sheet Definition the book itself.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
- English Word Sheet Definition A broad expanse of water, or the like.
- English Word Sheet Definition A sail.
- English Word Sheet Definition An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.