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synonyms for sheers
- depend
- rotate
- swivel
- twirl
- veer
- whirl
- hang
- hinge
- rely
- sheer
- spin
- turn
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip
- be contingent
- deflect
- lurch
- skid
- stray
- veer
- bend
- depart
- deviate
- dip
- diverge
- err
- incline
- move
- sheer
- shift
- sideslip
- sidestep
- skew
- slue
- swing
- tack
- turn
- wander
- waver
- wind
- depart from
- get off course
- go off course
- sheer off
- train off
- curve
- dangle
- flap
- fluctuate
- hang
- lurch
- pitch
- pivot
- rotate
- sway
- swivel
- turn
- twirl
- veer
- wave
- whirl
- wiggle
- wobble
- avert
- deflect
- divert
- oscillate
- palpitate
- reel
- revolve
- rock
- roll
- sheer
- shunt
- suspend
- swerve
- undulate
- vary
- vibrate
- volte-face
- waggle
- wheel
- be pendent
- pendulate
- turn about
- turn on an axis
- wag
- change
- convert
- move
- return
- shift
- swing
- switch
- transform
- twist
- about-face
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- backslide
- capsize
- curve
- depart
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- digress
- direct
- diverge
- incline
- inverse
- invert
- loop
- pivot
- recoil
- redirect
- regress
- relapse
- retrace
- revert
- sheer
- shunt
- sidetrack
- subvert
- sway
- swerve
- swirl
- tack
- upset
- vary
- veer
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip around
- whirl
- zigzag
- call off
- change position
- double back
- face about
- go back
- rechannel
- shy away
- bend
- deflect
- depart
- deviate
- diverge
- divert
- drift
- pivot
- shift
- skid
- swerve
- swing
- twist
- whirl
- avert
- bear
- change
- curve
- cut
- digress
- dip
- divagate
- sheer
- skew
- swivel
- tack
- turn
- wheel
- whip
- angle off
- be deflected
- change course
- get around
- make a left
- make a right
- train off
- volte-face
- pull
- rush
- shoot
- snatch
- tear
- whirl
- whisk
- avert
- deflect
- dive
- divert
- flash
- flit
- fly
- jerk
- pivot
- seize
- sheer
- surge
- turn
- veer
- wheel
- avert
- bend
- cover up
- divert
- hook
- pivot
- ricochet
- slip
- swerve
- veer
- whip
- curve
- deviate
- disperse
- diverge
- fend
- parry
- sheer
- shy
- sidetrack
- slew
- twist
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- glance off
- hold off
- keep off
- volte-face
- decline
- drop down
- fall
- go down
- nose-dive
- plummet
- plunge
- reach
- recede
- sag
- sink
- skid
- slip
- slump
- spiral
- tumble
- bend
- disappear
- droop
- fade
- incline
- set
- settle
- sheer
- skew
- slant
- slope
- slue
- subside
- swoop
- tilt
- veer
- verge
- alter
- deflect
- redirect
- switch
- avert
- change
- modify
- pivot
- sheer
- swerve
- veer
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- turn aside
- volte-face
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Sheer′-hulk, an old dismasted ship with a pair of sheers mounted on it for masting ships; Sheer′-leg, one of the spars.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSWhen she had tane the mantle, And all was with it cladde, From top to toe it shiver'd down, As tho' with sheers beshradde.
A BOOK OF BALLADS, VOLUME 1VARIOUSAngeline supported the family by working on the 'sheers,' 'diggin one half the taters fur tother half!'
KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS, V. 2 OF 2JOHN WILSON TOWNSENDWe back out into the river, bring up, then come ahead, canting to a rudder pressure that sheers us into the fairway.
MERCHANTMEN-AT-ARMSDAVID W. BONETwo of them are lashed together as sheers with legs of unequal length, the longer leg being in the direction of the strain.
SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL & EXPLORATIONW. B. LORDAs he leans over, the boat sheers again into the stream, the stem-post breaks away and she is loose.
CANYONS OF THE COLORADOJ. W. POWELLGyarnit got th'ee hund'ed sheers, I got fawty; yit I the poweh behime the th'one.
JOHN MARCH, SOUTHERNERGEORGE W. CABLEAs the order was obeyed to the letter, the day had not fairly opened when the sheers were in their places and secured.
HOMEWARD BOUNDJAMES FENIMORE COOPERI'll warrant you the sheers go up none the slower for the information, desperate philosophers as some of these gentry are!
HOMEWARD BOUNDJAMES FENIMORE COOPERLet's go ashore again, and wait till he sheers off, for I don't want to see him.
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