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

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

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

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

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..

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..

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

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

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

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

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

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

Shears :: Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.

Clip :: Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

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

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..

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

Shearn :: Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.