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SHEAR, v.t. pret. sheared; pp. sheared or shorn. The old pret. shore is entirely obsolete. 1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox. 2. To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece. 3. To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish. SHEAR, To deviate. [See Sheer.]
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SHEAR, v.t. pret. sheared; pp. sheared or shorn. The old pret. shore is entirely obsolete. 1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox. 2. To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece. 3. To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish. SHEAR, To deviate. [See Sheer.] |
SHEAR, v.i.To deviate. [See Sheer.]
SHEAR, v.t. [pret. sheared; pp. sheared or shorn. The old pret. shore is entirely obsolete. Sax. scearan, scyran, sciran, to shear, to divide, whence share and shire; G. scheren, to shear or shave, and to vex, to rail, to jeer; schier dich weg, get you gone; schier dich aus dem wege, move out of the way; D. scheeren, to shave, shear, banter, stretch, warp; de geck scheeren, to play the fool; zig weg scheeren, to shear off; Dan. skierer, to cut, carve, saw, hew; skierts, a jest, jeer, banter; skiertser, to sport, mock, jeer; Sw. skiära, to reap, to mow, to cut off, to cleanse, to rinse; Sans. schaura or chaura, to shave; W. ysgar, a part, a share; ysgariaw, to separate. The Greek has ξυραω, to shave, and κειρω, to shave, shear, cut off or lay waste. The primary sense is to separate or force off in general; but a prominent signification is to separate by rubbing, as in scouring, or as in shaving, cutting close to the surface. Hence the sense of jeering, as we say, to give one the rub. See Scour, and Class Gr, No. 5, 8.]- To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox.
- To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.
- To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish. – Gower.
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Shear
- To cut, clip, or sever anything from with
shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to
shear cloth.
- A pair
of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the
singular. See Shears.
- To
deviate. See Sheer.
- To separate or sever with shears or a
similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface;
as, to shear a fleece.
- A shearing; -- used in designating the age
of sheep.
- 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.
- To reap, as grain.
- 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.
- Fig.: To deprive of property; to
fleece.
- 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.
- To produce a change of shape
in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
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Shear SHEAR, verb transitive preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete. 1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox. 2. To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece. 3. To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish. SHEAR, To deviate. [See Sheer.] |
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