Each, in turn, sheered off toward shore and beached herself. The blast knocked out her engines and rudder, and she sheered out of line. The S class had a trawler-like bow with a more sharply sheered and turtleback forecastle. Areas of compacted or sheered mud and sediment are also a form of hard bottom. "Boise" immediately sheered out of the column and retreated from the action. After inconclusive actions in the Cyclades, the Ottoman fleet sheered to Tenedos.