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Shears   /ʃɪrz/   Listen
noun
Shears  n. pl.  
1.
A cutting instrument. Specifically:
(a)
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. "Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain."
(b)
A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, used for shearing sheep or skins.
(c)
A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
2.
Anything in the form of shears. Specifically:
(a)
A pair of wings. (Obs.)
(b)
An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. (Written also sheers)
3.
(Mach.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer.
Rotary shears. See under Rotary.





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"Shears" Quotes from Famous Books



... predict that the infant shall become the heir? Who can tell that Death sits not side by side with the nurse at the cradle? Can the mother's hand measure out the woof of the Parcae, or the father's eye detect through the darkness of the morrow the gleam of the fatal shears? ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... orbs, an oldster bow'd by burthening years, How 'scaped the skiff an hundred storms; how 'scaped the thread a thousand shears; ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... looked like lead. It was a small piece, about the size of an ordinary loaf of sugar and had no particular marks on it, except that it looked as if it might have been cut from a larger piece with shears or some such instrument. He dropped in into the middle of the slab of wood, and squatted in front of it, ...
— Caves of Terror • Talbot Mundy
... undertake. And those on whom heaven, earth, and hell relies, I mean the adamantine Destinies, He wounds with love, and forced them equally To dote upon deceitful Mercury. They offered him the deadly fatal knife That shears the slender threads of human life. At his fair feathered feet the engines laid Which th' earth from ugly Chaos' den upweighed. These he regarded not but did entreat That Jove, usurper of his father's seat, Might presently be banished ...
— Hero and Leander • Christopher Marlowe
... again laid hands on him, and threw him into prison at Bayeux, and his father had once more to free him from custody. Still his soul revolted at honest industry; and, although he condescended to return to St. Lo, the shears and the goose remained unknown to him, and he made his stay under the paternal roof as brief ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous


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