Shear

[Shear]

A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears.

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To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

Noun
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

Noun
(usually plural) large scissors with strong blades

Noun
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"

Verb
cut with shears; "shear hedges"

Verb
cut or cut through with shears

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Verb
shear the wool from; "shear sheep"

v. t.
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

v. t.
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

v. t.
To reap, as grain.

v. t.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

v. t.
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

v. t.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

v. t.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

v. t.
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.

v. t.
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.

v. i.
To deviate. See Sheer.

v. i.
To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

Shear

Shear , v. t. [imp. Sheared or Shore ;p. p. Sheared or Shorn ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. skire, Gr. . Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. &hand; It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Shear

Shear, n. [AS. sceara. See Shear, v. t.] 1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
On his head came razor none, nor shear.
Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.
2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
After the second shearing, he is a two-sher ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
3. (Engin.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress. 4. (Mech.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. -- Shear hulk. See under Hulk. -- Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

Shear

Shear, v. i. 1. To deviate. See Sheer. 2. (Engin.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

To deviate. See Sheer.

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