Definition of shear

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Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain..

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Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..
Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..
Shears :: Shears (n.) A pair of wings.
Woolfell :: Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..
Scissor :: Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
Daunt :: Daunt (v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..
Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..
Disheart :: Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.
Shear :: Shear (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..
Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
Dispirit :: Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
Shearbill :: Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..
Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
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