stere
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stere
1790–1800; < French stère < Greek stereós solid
Example Sentences
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O werste of alle wicke, Of conscience whom no pricke Mai stere, lo, what thou hast do!
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
Was no stightlyng with stere ne no stithe ropes, Ne no sayle, þat might serue for unsound wedur.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
Lo thus, mi Sone, it mai thee stere Of swevenes forto take kepe, For ofte time a man aslepe Mai se what after schal betide.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
And for because that Saturne is of so late sterynge, therfore the folk of that contree, that ben undre his clymat, han of kynde no wille for to meve ne stere to seche strange places.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
The theoretical unit of volume is the stere, which is a cubic meter.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by The Detroit News
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