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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Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..
Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
Hag :: Hag (n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.
Unheart :: Unheart (v. t.) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..
Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Dispirit :: Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
Snip :: Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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..
Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.
Disheartenment :: Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..
Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..
Shearing :: Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.
Shearling :: Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.
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..
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