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shear
verb (past tense sheared , past participle sheared or shorn , present participle shearing )
1 to clip or cut off something, especially with a large pair of clippers.
2 to cut the fleece off (a sheep).
3 to cut excess nap from (fabric).
4 (usu shear someone of something) to strip or deprive them of it We'll have to shear him of his privileges He was shorn of all authority .
5 tr & intr , engineering , physics (also shear off) to subject to a shear.
noun
1 the act of shearing.
2 (shears) a large pair of clippers, or a scissor-like cutting tool with a pivot or spring.
3 engineering , physics a force acting parallel to a plane rather than at right angles to it.
[Anglo-Saxon sceran ]
shearer noun someone who shears sheep.
verb (past tense sheared , past participle sheared or shorn , present participle shearing )
1 to clip or cut off something, especially with a large pair of clippers.
2 to cut the fleece off (a sheep).
3 to cut excess nap from (fabric).
4 (usu shear someone of something) to strip or deprive them of it We'll have to shear him of his privileges He was shorn of all authority .
5 tr & intr , engineering , physics (also shear off) to subject to a shear.
noun
1 the act of shearing.
2 (shears) a large pair of clippers, or a scissor-like cutting tool with a pivot or spring.
3 engineering , physics a force acting parallel to a plane rather than at right angles to it.
[Anglo-Saxon sceran ]
shearer noun someone who shears sheep.
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