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What (who) is shear - definition
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Shear (disambiguation); Shearing (disambiguation); Shear (mechanics)
shear
(shears, shearing, sheared, shorn)
1.
To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off.
In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else.
VERB: V n
• shearing
...a display of sheep shearing.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A pair of shears is a garden tool like a very large pair of scissors. Shears are used especially for cutting hedges.
Trim the shrubs with shears.
N-PLURAL: also a pair of N
shear
I. v. a.
1.
Cut, clip.
2.
Strip, fleece, plunder.
II. v. n.
1.
Cut, penetrate.
2.
Deviate, swerve, turn aside. See sheer.
shear
¦ verb (past participle shorn or sheared)
1. cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).
cut off with scissors or shears.
(be shorn of) have something cut off.
2. break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain.
¦ noun a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other.
Derivatives
shearer noun
Origin
OE sceran, of Gmc origin, from a base meaning 'divide, shear, shave'.
Usage
On the confusion of shear and sheer, see usage at sheer2.
Examples of use of shear
1. This is called wind shear, and this summer the wind shear values are up to 40 per cent below normal.
2. Shear contributed to this report from Washington.
3. Shear and Josh White in Washington contributed to this report.
4. Shear and Lila de Tantillo contributed to this report.
5. Shear and the Associated Press contributed to this report.