All 6 Uses

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Queen of Attolia
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There was a sheer drop of fatal length into the courtyard on one side and down to the perimeter road on the other.†
Chpt 1
They lay on their bellies on the wide stones to look down the sheer walls to the pavement of the road.†
Chpt 1 *
They were sheer, rising straight to the walks above, unlike the banked walls of older cities.†
Chpt 1
At the end of the second night of the march, Xenophon stood in the riverbed, looking up at the sheer walls on either side of him.†
Chpt 13
The speed of the boat, once it had turned broadside to the wind, seemed twice what it had been before, and Attolia went on clutching the siderail as the boat charged toward sheer cliffs.†
Chpt 15
The coastal hills were less uniform than the sheer rise of the Hephestials inland of the Seperchia River.†
Chpt 16

Definitions:

(1) (sheer as in: a sheer blouse)
typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent
(2) (sheer as in: sheer fun)
complete or pure -- without restriction, qualification, or other elements (used for emphasis)
(3) (sheer as in: a sheer cliff)
so steep it is almost vertical
(4) (sheer as in: sheer to the left)
change direction; or to cause such a change of direction -- usually abruptly
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Sheer can also be an alternative spelling for shear (to cut). Sheers can refer to light, transparent curtains.