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shearleg

shearleg is the alternative form of sheerleg.

Meaning of sheerleg

Noun

sheerleg (plural sheerlegs)

  1. A floating crane, commonly used for ship salvage, loading and unloading large cargo, and the construction of bridges and ships.

Forms of shearleg

pluralshearlegs

Questions about shearleg

What is shearleg the alternative form of?
Shearleg is the alternative form of sheerleg.

Words near shearleg in the dictionary

  1. shearing sheds
  2. shearings
  3. shearinine
  4. Shearins
  5. Shearlaw
  6. shearleg
  7. shearlegs
  8. shearless
  9. shearlet
  10. shearlets
  11. shearlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shearleg (page history and authors); sheerleg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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