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Shear shear

Spelling: [sheer]

IPA: /ʃɪər/

Shear is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in Shear (aehrs).

Definitions for Shear

noun

1. Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
2. the act or process of shearing or being sheared.
3. a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep):
4. the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.
5. one blade of a pair of large scissors.
6. Usually, shears. (usually used with a plural verb). Also, sheers. Also called shear legs, sheerlegs. a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.
7. a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it.
8. Mechanics, Geology. the tendency of forces to deform or fracture a member or a rock in a direction parallel to the force, as by sliding one section against another.
9. Physics. the lateral deformation produced in a body by an external force, expressed as the ratio of the lateral displacement between two points lying in parallel planes to the vertical distance between the planes.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut (something).
2. to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument:
3. to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from:
4. to strip or deprive (usually followed by of):
5. Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle.
6. to travel through by or as if by cutting:

verb (used without object)

1. to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument.
2. to progress by or as if by cutting:
3. Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane.
4. Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle.

Origin of Shear

before 900; (v.) Middle English sheren, Old English sceran, cognate with Dutch, German scheren, Old Norse skera; (noun) (in sense “tool for shearing”) Middle English sheres (plural), continui

Examples for Shear

Didn't you know that Farmer Green and the hired man had begun to shear us?

When the moon rises, I will call the flock you have to shear.

The boys would say they kept sheep to shear them and get the wool.

Sterne might have reflected that it is not usually the custom to shear lambs.

“There was way too much taking the Democratic line on this,” shear said.

He's a fool that marries at Yule; for when the bairn's to bear the corn's to shear.

Good father,” cried he, “I will shear sheep, but not wolves!

You know Farmer Green said it would take Johnnie all day to shear him.

If you do not stop your impertinence, I will shear off your ears like cloth clippings!

Rise and shear—this flock of mine have too much wool on them.