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stere

American  
[steer] / stɪər /

noun

  1. a cubic meter equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet or 1.3080 cubic yards, used to measure cordwood. st


stere British  
/ stɪə /

noun

  1. a unit used to measure volumes of stacked timber equal to one cubic metre (35.315 cubic feet)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of stere

1790–1800; < French stère < Greek stereós solid

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And for-thy, nece, er that his herte breke, So spek your-self to him of this matere; For with o word ye may his herte stere.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

“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 Mark Antony Lower

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