Meanings
stear1
verbstear (third-person singular simple present stears, present participle stearing, simple past and past participle steared)
present singular third person stears · participle present stearing · participle past steared · past steared
- obsoleteObsolete form of steer.
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 […]
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; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
Stear2
Origin
Variant spelling of Steer, Stair, or Stare.
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APA
stear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stear
MLA
“stear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stear. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stear.
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