SHEER
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sheer is worth 12 points in the game of Scrabble
Definitions for the word, sheer
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. t.) To shear.