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Shear

verb

(past sheared or shore;past part. sheared or shorn; pres. part. shearing)

Cut with shears.

Shear the wool from. Synonym: fleece.

Cut or cut through with shears.

Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.

noun

(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.

A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.

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"Shear" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretty head, as much as to say Latin was beyond her; and he was kind enough to translate. "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear, not flay, ...

— The Judgment of Eve • May Sinclair

... Lakshman, see, A form to shudder at and flee. The hideous monster's very view Would cleave a timid heart in two. Behold the demon hard to smite, Defended by her magic might. My hand shall stay her course to-day, And shear her nose and ears away. No heart have I her life to take: I spare it for her sex's sake. My will is but—with minished force— To check her in her evil course." While thus he spoke, by rage impelled— Roaring ...

— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... the gentleman With our naked sword, Wherewith we shear meadows and fields. We shear princes and lords. Labourers are often athirst; If the gentleman will stand beer and brandy The joke will soon be over. But, if our prayer he does not like, The sword ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... wagon to a star in a way, or in a spirit, that does not sanctify the wagon, but debases the star. Emerson is perhaps too exceptional to take his place among the small band of the really first-class writers of the world. Shear him of his paradoxes, of his surprises, of his sudden inversions, of his taking sallies in the face of the common reason, and appraise him for his real mastery over the elements of life and of the mind, as we do Bacon, or Shakespeare, or Carlyle, and he will be found ...

— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... dripping branches were enough to strip even the most prolific of the fruit-bearers. Most destructive of all were the flocks of parrots; they wasted more than they ate. They plucked the choicest morsels, took one bite and dropped them or, snipping the stems with their shear-like mandibles permitted the nuts or berries to rattle down to the ground. Later, when there were no more to eat, let alone destroy, they complained with raucous screams as they were compelled to satisfy their hunger on leaves ...

— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

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