sheerlt (sher)

t. [ They boorded him againe as before, and threw foure kedgers or grapnalls in iron chaines; then shearing off, they thought so to have torne downe the grating. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 52. As ye barke shered by ye canow, he shote him close under Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 317. her side, in ye head. If they're hard upon you, brother,... give 'em a wide Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxxix. berth, sheer off and part company cheerily. To sheer alongside, to come carefully or by a curving movement alongside any object.