shear : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force
  

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• large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.

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• noun shears with strong blades used for light pruning of woody plants
  

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• shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.

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• shears, as for cloth, metal, etc., in which revolving sharp-edged or sharp-cornered wheels do the cutting.

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• one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine.

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• . See under Hulk.

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• 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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• shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep.

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Sheep"-shear`ing noun

Definitions

1. Act of shearing sheep.
2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.

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• noun shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair
  

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