On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:10:56 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

sheer: thin, filmy. "Wow, hon, that's a sheer dress!"

shear: Break, usually rapidly and completely. "I caught a screw driver in
the auger, and lost the shear pin." Oh, it was a Klein screw driver that I
hit.

Christopher A. Young


He said he can't see it so maybe it is sheer.