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Shear   /ʃɪr/   Listen
verb
Shear  v. t.  (past sheared or shore;past part. sheared or shorn; pres. part. shearing)  
1.
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
2.
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. "Before the golden tresses... were shorn away."
3.
To reap, as grain. (Scot.)
4.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5.
(Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.


Shear  v. i.  
1.
To deviate. See Sheer.
2.
(Engin.) 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.


noun
Shear  n.  
1.
A pair of shears; now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. "On his head came razor none, nor shear." "Short of the wool, and naked from the shear."
2.
A shearing; used in designating the age of sheep. "After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram;... at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing."
3.
(Engin.) 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.
4.
(Mech.) 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 blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine.
Shear hulk. See under Hulk.
Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.





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"Shear" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Lumbert brought up. A rope was fastened to Fisher's neck, by which he was hauled upon deck. A rope was made fast to Mr. Lumbert's feet, and in this way was he got upon deck, but when in the act of being thrown from the ship, he caught the plank-shear; and appealed to Comstock, reminding him of his promise to save him, but in vain; for the monster forced him from his hold, and he fell into the sea! As he appeared to be yet capable of swimming, a boat was ordered to be lowered, to pursue and finish him, fearing he might be picked up by the Lyra; ...
— A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 • William Lay
... stress at elastic limit, in pounds per square inch. J: Modulus of rupture, in pounds per square inch. K: Modulus of elasticity, in thousands of pounds per square inch. L: Elastic resilience, in inch pounds per cubic inch. M: Number failing by longitudinal shear. ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 - Tests of Creosoted Timber, Paper No. 1168 • W. B. Gregory
... the efficacy of gold in sacred matters!" Avarice often leads the highest men astray, and men, admirable in all other respects: these find a salvo for simony; and, striking against this rock of corruption, they do not shear but flay the flock; and, wherever they teem, plunder, exhaust, raze, making shipwreck of their reputation, if not of their souls also. Hence it appears that this malady did not flow from the humblest ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... animals that live solely on flesh, have only the cutting, or shear-like movement of the jaws. Those that use vegetables for food, have the grinding motion; while man has both the ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter
... for she was walking most of the time, anyhow—climbing over reefs and clambering over snags patiently and laboriously all day long. The captain said she was a "bully" boat, and all she wanted was some "shear" and a bigger wheel. I thought she wanted a pair of stilts, but I had the deep sagacity ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine


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