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Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass..

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Shorn :: Shorn () p. p. of Shear.

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..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A pair of wings.

Shears :: Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..

Lambale :: Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

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

Shearling :: Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.

Disheartened :: Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearte.

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) One who shears.

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.

Hag :: Hag (n.) The hagdon or shearwater.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

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