sheer line

The cliff walls rose in a sheer line from the desert floor.

"No power for a turn, not without hitting the sheer line.

Met status behind sheer line estimated at plus seven."

You have two minutes to sheer line impact."

Common arcs of circles replaced the sheer line with "lively rise" at both ends.

There are eleven equally spaced holes (60 mm in diameter) near the top edge of the sheer line.

Sheer line at three five zero.

When You pulled the trigger, a flat steel spring jumped upward and lodged some of the pins at the sheer line.

Zeigler hit a sheer line wrong, forgot to lock his harness, hit the overhead.

Other composite types include sheathed-strip, which uses (usually) a single layer of strips laid up parallel to the sheer line.

Negative on sheer lines.

Interrogative met status behind sheer line."

The other ship was roughly the same basic shape, but its sheer line was broken with stacked housings amidships.

The new design was subject to some minor adjustments of sheer line and rudder size over the years 1901-1902 before the design was finalised.

Locks usually have four or five pins, and for them to open, all of the pins have to reach a certain height, called the sheer line.

A high brick wall, featureless except for simple brick pilasters at intervals to break the sheer line, fronted the street.

They'll cross the sheer line."

If I had wanted you out of the way, I could have stayed in the Ops center and vectored you right into the sheer line.

These designs featured long overhangs at the bow and stern and curved "springy" sheer lines giving these yachts intrinsic beauty.

His eyes took in the displays, measuring, trying to calculate a vector to the flatlands or even the plains hills that would not force her to cross the sheer line again.

"So am I. So am I." His hands trim the stones automatically, only his senses pointing the weaknesses and sheer lines in the hard black stone.

The top edge of the planking, doubled for a couple of feet below the sheer line, made a narrow ledge for his feet so that he was held horizontally.

Behind him the driver wailed and slid back a few inches, and around his spread fingers opened a mesh of smaller cracks, running parallel to the gaping sheer line.

On the far side of the plateau there was a steep drop where the island's thick wooden sea-bulwark descended in a straight sheer line to the dark ocean far below.