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To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a
like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. |
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To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. |
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To reap, as grain. |
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Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. |
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To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear,
n., 4. |
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A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
formerly also in the singular. See Shears. |
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A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To deviate. See Sheer. |
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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. |
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