Anagrams of: OVERRASHNESS

• hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers

• the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• a throaty harshness

• A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

• Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.

• A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

• A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

• A sheave.

• An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

• A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.

• A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.

• a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope)

• a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)