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sheering

sheering is the present participle and gerund of sheer.

Meaning of sheer

Verb

sheer (third-person singular simple present sheers, present participle sheering, simple past and past participle sheered)

  1. To swerve from a course.
    • I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II

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Words that rhyme with sheering

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Questions about sheering

What is sheering the present participle and gerund of?
Sheering is the present participle and gerund of sheer.

Words near sheering in the dictionary

  1. Sheerans
  2. sheered
  3. sheerer
  4. sheerest
  5. Sheerin
  6. sheering
  7. Sheerins
  8. Sheerio
  9. Sheerios
  10. sheerish
  11. sheerleg

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