stear

See also: Stear

English

Verb

stear (third-person singular simple present stears, present participle stearing, simple past and past participle steared)

1. Obsolete form of steer.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     And now thir way to Earth they had descri'd, / To Paradise first tending, when behold / Satan in likeness of an Angel bright / Betwixt the Centaure and the Scorpion stearing / His Zenith, while the Sun in Aries rose […]

Related terms

• stearsman

Anagrams

• teras, -aster, reast, earst, treas., taser, setar, stare, TASer, aster-, arste, sater, aster, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser