Sheered

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sheer \Sheer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sheered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sheering}.] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See
     {Shear}.]
     To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to
     turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a
     horse sheers at a bicycle.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {To sheer off}, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move
        away.
  
     {To sheer up}, to approach obliquely.
        [1913 Webster]