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noun
- (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
- (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
verb
- (nautical) To swerve from a course.
- To shear. (rare/archaic?)
adjective (er, more)
- (context, textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- Her light, dress caught everyone's attention.
- pure, Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
- I think it is genius to invent such a thing.
- This poem is nonsense.
- Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.
- It was a drop of 180 feet.
Translations: - German: steil
(trans-mid)
adverb
- Clean, clean; quite; at once.
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