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Stere

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Stere
    A rudder. See 5th Steer.
  2. Stere
    A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 11/3 cubic yards.
  3. Stere
    Helmsman. See 6th Steer.
  4. Stere
    To stir. "He could not move nor quich at all."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. stere
    A Middle English form of steer, steer, stir, stoor.
  2. (n) stere
    A cubic meter: the French unit for solid measure, equal to 35.31 cubic feet. The word stere is but little used, except with reference to cordwood, cubic meter being the expression in universal use for the solid unit.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Stere
    stēr a cubic unit of metric measure—a cubic mètre, equivalent to 35.3156 English cubic feet
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. stère, fr. Gr. solid

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. stère—Gr. stereos, solid.

Usage in the news

Steres makes jump from PDL . espn.go.com

Live on your stere-ere-o 18 to party, 21 to drink Grown and sexy: no white tees, athletic apparel, sneakers, workboots It's going down. bsrlive.com

Usage in scientific papers

However, as the Cold Dark Matter model (Blumenthal et al. 1984) garnered momentum, Davis et al. (1985) provided the first simulations within the hierarchical clu stering CDM framework.
Shedding Light on the Galaxy Luminosity Function

Their second commonpoint is linked to the first: the solution of clu stering is obtained after thresholding the spectral clustering output.
Soft Uncoupling of Markov Chains for Permeable Language Distinction: A New Algorithm

Maria Falcitelli, Stere Ianus, and Anna Maria Pastore, Riemannian submersions and related topics, World Scientific Publishing Co.
Classification of Pseudo-Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibres from pseudo-hyperbolic spaces

Usage in literature

My selfe shal trye the wynde and kepe the Stere. "The Ship of Fools, Volume 1" by Sebastian Brandt

The theoretical unit of volume is the stere, which is a cubic meter. "The Style Book of The Detroit News" by The Detroit News

Who dare stere him vp? "The First Boke of Moses called Genesis" by William Tyndale

Bartholemew Stere, carpenter ... was the first person of this insurrection. "The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century" by Richard Henry Tawney

Usage in poetry
When she do speak to woone, she don't steäre an' grin;
There's sense in her looks, vrom her eyes to her chin,
An' her words be so kind, an' her speech is so meek,
As her eyes do look down a-beginnèn to speak.
"The Maid Vor My Bride" by William Barnes Author object (690)