Shear ¹

Definition: To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

Shear ²

Definition: To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

Shear ³

Definition: To reap, as grain.

Shear ⁴

Definition: Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Shear ⁵

Definition: To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n.,

Shear ⁶

Definition: A pair of shears; now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

Shear ⁷

Definition: A shearing; used in designating the age of sheep.

Shear ⁸

Definition: 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.

Shear ⁹

Definition: 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.

Shear ¹⁰

Definition: To deviate. See Sheer.

Shear ¹¹

Definition: 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.

shear ¹²

Definition: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

shear ¹³

Definition: (usually plural) large scissors with strong blades

shear ¹⁴

Definition: (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"

shear ¹⁵

Definition: cut with shears; "shear hedges"

shear ¹⁶

Definition: cut or cut through with shears

shear ¹⁷

Definition: shear the wool from; "shear sheep"