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Shear
ʃɪə
Shear definitions
verb
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shorn
- cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)
"Paul has never sheared a sheep before"
- cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears
"I'll shear off all that fleece"
- have something cut off
"they were shorn of their hair"
- break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain
"the gear sheared and jammed in the rear wheel"
noun
shear
- a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
"the water from the upper source is emitted at the same speed as the main flow; there is thus no shear"