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Definition of shear

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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..

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Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

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

Shear :: Shear (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..

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..

Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

Disanimate :: Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

Mishear :: Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.

Shear :: Shear (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..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree..

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

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) Shears See Shear.

Woolfell :: Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

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

Scissor :: Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..

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

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.