† sheer-pointn.
Obsolete rare.
(Origin and meaning obscure.) Cf. Lisle's expressions on pp. 433–4: ‘a hard thundershower, which went to the roots of the corn’; ‘a moderate rain.., enough to go to the roots of the corn’; ‘one moderate shower..which went not to the roots of the corn’.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 435 March the 10th, or there~abouts, fell a rain that might possibly go to the sheer-point.
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n.a1722- look nine ways
- look nine ways at at thrice
- look nine ways at once
- look nine ways for sunday
- look of
- look off
- look old-fashioned at
- look oldfashioned at
- look on
- look on ahead
- look on formerly also to the bright side of
- look on formerly also to the bright side of something
- look on formerly also to the dark side of
- look on formerly also to the dark side of something
- look on formerly also to the etc side of
- look on formerly also to the etc side of something
- look on the black side
- look on the bright side
- look on the bright side of
- look on the bright side of something
- look on the dark side
- look on the dark side of
- look on the dark side of something
- look on the etc side
- look on the etc side of