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| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | Winch mounted on a two-legged or tripod support. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:shear legs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wreck of USS Chauncey (DD-296) near shore, during salvage operations some time after 8 September 1923, when she went aground on Honda Point with six other destroyers. Sheer legs are rigged atop her galley deckhouse to assist in removing items from the ship. Her midships 4"/50 guns have already been sent ashore. The wreck of USS Woodbury (DD-309) is in the middle distance. Photographed by Sever. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photograph of the Machina Wharf, looking south from the roof of Building 24, 1900. Sheer legs are at left, by the small ship alongside the wharf. Note the sunken Spanish gunboat Marques Del Duero (1875-1898) in the right background. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Tied up at the Sheer Wharf, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa 1876, after she was reconstructed. Note the sheer legs on the wharf, and the sterns of USS Wabash and USS Ohio at the left. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SHEER LEGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | buk (bent, bracket, cannon pot, holder, holding device, horse, jockey pot, lifting gin, mounting, mounting bracket, skittle pot, support, trestle, tripod, wooden framework). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | bok (bench, easel, goat, he-goat, tressle, workbench). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | chèvre (sheep, she-goat). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Zweibaum (lifting gin, tripod), Montagemast (erection mast, erection pole, hoisting mast, lifting gin, tripod), Hebebock (hydraulic jack, jack, lifting gin, tripod), Dreibein (tripod), Dreibaum (lifting gin, tripod). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | απλό βαρούλκο (lifting gin, tripod). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | capra (goat, nanny, nanny goat, she-goat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eershay egslay cabra (goat, guy, nanny-goat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sheerlegs. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-l-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: heelers, reheels. | |
-3 letters: egress, gelees, heeler, legers, lessee, lesser, reheel, resees, reshes, serges, sheers. | |
-4 letters: egers, erses, geese, gelee, ghees, glees, grees, heels, heres, herls, leers, leger, leges, lehrs, reels, reges, resee, seels, seers, seres, serge, sheer. | |
-5 letters: eels, eger, else, ergs, eses, gees, gels, ghee, glee, gree, heel, here, herl, hers, leer, lees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-h-l-r-s-s" | |
+4 letters: sledgehammers, telegrapheses. | |
+5 letters: weatherglasses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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