(textiles) Very thin or transparent. / (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. / (by extension) Downright; complete; pure. / Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

(archaic) Clean; quite; at once.

A sheer curtain or fabric.

(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. / (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

(chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course. / (obsolete) To shear.

(uncountable) The property of being sheer. / (countable, rare) The result or product of being sheer.

plural of sheer

(nautical) sheerlegs.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sheer

simple past tense and past participle of sheer