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.
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument;
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
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
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.3.
Shear
On his head came razor none, nor shear.
Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.2.
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.
Shear
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument;
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See
To deviate. See
Usage Examples
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