ALL meanings of shears
shear
S s - verb with object shears to cut (something). 1
- verb with object shears to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep. 1
- verb with object shears to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep. 1
- verb with object shears to strip or deprive (usually followed by of): to shear someone of power. 1
- verb with object shears Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle. 1
- verb with object shears to travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air. 1
- verb without object shears to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. 1
- verb without object shears to progress by or as if by cutting: The cruiser sheared through the water. 1
- verb without object shears Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane. 1
- verb without object shears Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle. 1
- noun shears 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. 1
- noun shears the act or process of shearing or being sheared. 1
- noun shears a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep): a sheep of one shear. 1
- noun shears the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing. 1
- noun shears one blade of a pair of large scissors. 1
- noun shears 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. 1
- noun shears a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it. 1
- noun shears 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. 1
- noun shears 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. 1
- noun plural shears large scissors, as for cutting cloth, jointing poultry, etc 0
- noun plural shears a large scissor-like and usually handheld cutting tool with flat blades, as for cutting hedges 0
- noun plural shears any of various analogous cutting or clipping implements or machines 0
- noun plural shears a pair of scissors, usually large, as used in gardening 0
- noun plural shears any of several large tools or machines used to cut metal, etc. by the scissors action of two opposed cutting edges 0
- noun plural shears a device used in hoisting, consisting of two or more guyed poles or legs spread at the base and joined at the top to hold hoisting tackle 0