Definition of shear

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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..

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Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
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..
Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.
Woolfell :: Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
Shears :: Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.
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 produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..
Disheart :: Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.
Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Shorn :: Shorn () p. p. of Shear.
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..
Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.
Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.
Sheer :: Sheer (v. t.) To shear.
Disheartened :: Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearte.
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
Disanimate :: Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
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