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- English Word Shear Definition To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- English Word Shear Definition To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
- English Word Shear Definition To reap, as grain.
- English Word Shear Definition Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
- English Word Shear Definition To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
- English Word Shear Definition A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
- English Word Shear Definition A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
- English Word Shear Definition 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.
- English Word Shear Definition 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.
- English Word Shear Definition To deviate. See Sheer.
- English Word Shear Definition 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.
- English Word Shearbill Definition The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
- English Word Sheard Definition See Shard.
- English Word Sheared Definition of Shear
- English Word Sheared Definition of Shear
- English Word Shearer Definition One who shears.
- English Word Shearer Definition A reaper.
- English Word Shearing Definition of Shear
- English Word Shearing Definition The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- English Word Shearing Definition The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
- English Word Shearing Definition Same as Shearling.
- English Word Shearing Definition The act or operation of reaping.
- English Word Shearing Definition The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
- English Word Shearing Definition The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- English Word Shearing Definition The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- English Word Shearling Definition A sheep but once sheared.
- English Word Shearman Definition One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
- English Word Shearmen Definition of Shearman
- English Word Shearn Definition Dung; excrement.
- English Word Shears Definition A cutting instrument.