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Town on Sheppey
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sheerness
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being sheer. 2 (context countable rare English) The result or product of being sheer.
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Sheerness is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent , England. With a population of 13,000 it is the largest town on the island. Sheerness began as a fort built in the 16th century ...
Usage examples of sheerness.
There was an end, at last, to the dizzy gyrations of the hole mto which they were packed, and the prisoners, foul with the slime of CAPTAIN CAUTION 379 the cable tier and sore from head to foot because of the bed of wet and stinking rope on which they had lain interminably, clambered weakly up the companion-ladders to find the barque hove-to under heavy skies in the lee of the crowded dockyard of Sheerness, at the mouths of the Thames and the Medway, and under the guns of two lowering forts.
Isle of Sheppey, on which Sheerness stood, was a place reckoned by most naval officers to be damned dull.
The Isle of Sheppey slid by on the port side guarded by the port of Sheerness.
For this reason Monsieur le comte de Sheerness left orders, when he went to Londres, that musketeers were to be billeted in the stables, and the perimeters of the estate were to be patrolled night and day.