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† sheer-point Obs. 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’.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 435 March the 10th, or there⁓abouts, fell a rain that might possibly go to the sheer-point. |