sheered, a. Naut.
(ʃɪəd)
[f. sheer n.2 + -ed2.]
Of a ship: Built with a (particular kind of) sheer. Usually with defining word as moon-sheered, straight-sheered.
| 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine ii. (1780), Vaisseau qui a le côté foible, a straight-sheered ship. 1852–63 Burn Nav. & Milit. Techn. Dict. (ed. 4) ii, Sheered, tonturé; moon —, fort enhuché; round —, gondolé, fort tonturé, de côté fort; straight —, low-built ship, vaisseau ras, m.; straight—upper works, accastillage ras, m. |