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Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

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

Clip :: Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.

Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

Snip :: Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

Despond :: Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view..

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..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.

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

Shearbill :: Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

Shorling :: Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing..

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

Sheared :: Sheared (imp.) of Shea.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) 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..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

Scissors :: Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors..

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