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

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) 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..

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

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

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

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.

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

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..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.

Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

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..

Clip :: Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.

Disheartening :: Disheartening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearte.

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

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth..

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