All this is, I suppose, Greek to you; but you will perhaps comprehend me when I explain that sheersare used to assist in hoisting heavy articles with.
They were now in a position to attack the wreck in good earnest, which they did by rigging up a pair of sheers on deck and hoisting the cargo from the ship's hold and depositing it directly on the raft alongside.
The man had a fine horse that he loved much; and the good wife went into the stable, cut off the tail of the horse, wrapping the sheersup in it, and then laid them under the pillow again.
The man ran into the stable, and found the horse's tail was cut off; then going to his bed, he found the sheers wrapped up in his horse's tail.
Ralli soon had a pair of sheers rigged, and in due time one of the guns was slung ready for hoisting.
However, he speedily emerged and was the first man to mount the sheers again.
On the day the Inflexible was launched, Pellew on the top of the sheers was trying to get in the mainmast.
I'll warrant you the sheers go up none the slower for the information, desperate philosophers as some of these gentry are!
As the order was obeyed to the letter, the day had not fairly opened when the sheers were in their places and secured.
Fortunately, the tackles with which Mr. Leach had raised the sheers and stepped the jury-mast the previous morning were still lying on the deck, and Paul was spared the labour of reeving new ones.
Sheers on Shore, One Officer from the Alliance, and a Number | of Men came to work, Recd.
She falters at the end of the long tow-rope and sheerswildly in the wake of her salvor.
We back out into the river, bring up, then come ahead, canting to a rudder pressure that sheers us into the fairway.
The sloop sheers round our stern and thunders up alongside.
When I meets up with a feemale woman on my trail, I sheers off some prompt, Mr. Dixon; I sheers off.
An information ex officio had been filed against a printer in Cork for a seditious newspaper: it turned out that the two Counsellors Sheers were the real editors.
Also, in a sheer-hulk, a spur or spar for keeping the sheers out to the required distance, so that their head should plumb with the centre of the ship when taking out or putting in masts.
Meanwhile, the crew got to work and rigged a pair of sheers over the stump of the mainmast, firmly staying it with guys leading aft to the taffrail and forward to the windlass-bitts.
This done, he hunted up the axe and wandered off to the woods in search of a couple of spars to serve as sheers for working the main hatchway.
The sheers were then raised till they were brought to a perpendicular position, when the motion of the winch was reversed, and the sheers were lowered inwards upon the wharf, and the stone thus laid upon the waggon.
At letters h h, will be seen more distinctly the cast-iron bed, with the snugs or flanges for the reception of the lower ends of the sheers a a a and b b b b, with their journal-bolts.
At the same works, castings were also made for a set of new sheers for those broken in the month of September at the eastern landing creek, which answered all the purposes of a crane, as represented in Plate XI.
The chain was then unhooked, and the sheers were ready for lifting another stone, as will be better understood by referring to Plate XI.
Connected with these, a pair of sheerswere set up, which were moveable upon a bolt, and worked with a crab or winch machine, the whole being strongly batted to the rock.
He could discern that the Beacon was in good order, but found that the strong Triangular-sheers of cast-iron, represented in Plate XI.
This motion had the effect of giving the stone a kant inwards, when the working-sheers came to the perpendicular, so as to lay it upon the waggon f, to be wheeled along the railways, as will be understood by examining Plate XVIII.
Captain Wilson and his crew also erected a pair of sheers and a suitable tackle for lifting the cast-iron sash-frames from the balcony to the top of the parapet-wall.
This beam was mounted at the upper and lower extremities with strong cast-iron plates; f marks the cast-iron sheers or cheeks, fixed to the bottom of the upright shaft, into which the moveable beam works upon the journal or bolt g.
He promised me a bunch of sheers if he ever worked it out, but he never give 'em to me.
Them sheers is sellin' fer clost onto a hundred and sixty.
They gradually approach the vessel; the life-boat sheers in; the seas and tide and wind catch her in their full power, and whirl her away again.
The life-boat in turn sheers near the light-vessel in passing, and hears the same report.
Down helm, and the boat sheers in close alongside, the men in the bow pay out the cable quickly to let the boat float alongside the ship, "Jump when we near!
The life-boat continues to cruise round the brig, keeping as near as possible, but taking care to avoid her, as she sheers swiftly from side to side.
Each time the brig sheers heavily to one side or the other, she is brought up with a jerk that makes the steamer tremble from stem to stern, and tries the strength of the cable to the utmost.
The next time the boat rises she does not come well alongside, she rather falls short andsheers off.
The foresail is lowered, the anchor thrown overboard, and the boat fast sheers in towards the vessel, which they find to be an emigrant ship crowded with passengers.
The sheers were got up, and then an endeavour was made to hoist a sail on them, to beat the ship off the shore.
The crew were trying to get up jury-masts, or sheers rather, which are formed of two spars, the butt ends resting against the sides of the ship, and the others joined together.
The sail was blown to ribbons, and the sheers blown away.
This device, in one form, resembles an enormous pair of sheers which cut through the nets like paper.
The chart shows a bare six and a half fathoms over the bar, continuing slightly deeper until it sheers off into the deep basin that is the inner harbor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon; transparency
