stere
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stere
1790–1800; < French stère < Greek stereós solid
Example Sentences
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“Abouten his char ther wenten white alauns, Twenty and mo as gret as any stere, To hunten at the leon or the dere.”
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
The theoretical unit of volume is the stere, which is a cubic meter.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit
Decist�re, des-i-stār, n. a cubic measure equal to 1⁄10 stere.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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 Hakluyt, Richard
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 Morris, Richard
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