All 3 Uses of
sheer
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course, and sprang into its master's lap; he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away and died in the distance.†
Chpt 5 *
- But he felt less and less hopeful with each failure, and presently began to turn off into diverging avenues at sheer random, in desperate hope of finding the one that was wanted.†
Chpt 31 *
- Tom, I wouldn't ever got into all this trouble if it hadn't 'a' ben for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your'n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don't give a dern for a thing 'thout it's tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder."†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent
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(sheer as in: sheer to the left) change direction; or to cause such a change of direction -- usually abruptly