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..

Lern More About Shear

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.
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