Sheer batten (Shipbuilding), a long strip of wood to guide the
carpenters in following the sheer plan. -- Sheer boom, a boom slanting
across a stream to direct floating logs to one side. -- Sheer hulk. See
Shear hulk, under Hulk. -- Sheer plan, or Sheer draught (Shipbuilding),
a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane
passing through the middle line of the vessel. -- Sheer pole (Naut.),
an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel
to the ratlines. -- Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), the strake under the
gunwale on the top side. Totten. -- To break sheer (Naut.), to deviate
from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.