The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheer \Sheer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sheered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sheering.] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See Shear.] 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.
To sheer off, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away.
To sheer up, to approach obliquely.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of sheer English)
Wikipedia
Sheering is a village located in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England. It is located north-east of Harlow and south-west of Bishop's Stortford. With the neighbouring village of Lower Sheering it forms the civil parish of Sheering.
Sheering Village has about 350 households. There is a Church of England primary school and two pubs, The Cock Inn and The Crown, a general store with a post office, a sandwich shop, a hairdresser's, and a butcher's shop. St Mary's Church is a Norman building in Church Lane. It is also noted as the birthplace of the rhythm and blues band PCF.
Usage examples of "sheering".
A dozen, fifteen men were seen to be slipping, sliding down the sheering decks and hatch covers, already half-submerged, towards the nearest lifeboat.
Plunging heavily down the sheering side of a gaping trough, the Vectra's forefoot smashed down and through the hull of the submarine, some thirty feet aft of the bows, slicing through the toughened steel of the pressure hull as if it were cardboard.
Immediately, the telegraphs jangled, the water boiled whitely at the Sirrus's stern-shocked realisation of its imminence and death itself must have been only a merciful hair's-breadth apart for the unfortunate man in the water, and then the destroyer was clear, sheering sharply away from the Electra.
Inaccurate though the mortars were, some of the deadly fragmentation bombs found their way into the deep ravines where they took temporary shelter, the blast of metal lethal In the confined space between the sheering walls.
Mallory flattened himself on the roof, pressed himself as closely as possible against the low retaining wall that almost touched the great, sheering sides of the fortress, swore softly to himself.
A light, a bright orange flame had lanced out from the sheering wall of the fortress.
Clear air, brilliant light, and there was the Bellone sheering off, falling off from the wind, turning.
And now, with the gun-brigs sheering off, frightened by the shell, St Jacques let fly - heavy mortars, all the guns they possessed.