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Definition of shear

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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..

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Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth..

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

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..

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

Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Sheer :: Sheer (v. t.) To shear.

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

Shore :: Shore () imp. of Shear.

Amate :: Amate (v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

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

Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..

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

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..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

Belt :: Belt (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep..

Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.

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

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

Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..