[sheer-legz] 
[sheer] verb, sheared, sheared or shorn, shear⋅ing, noun | 1. | to cut (something). |
| 2. | to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep. |
| 3. | to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep. |
| 4. | to strip or deprive (usually fol. by of): to shear someone of power. |
| 5. | Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle. |
| 6. | to travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air. |
| 7. | to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. |
| 8. | to progress by or as if by cutting: The cruiser sheared through the water. |
| 9. | Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane. |
| 10. | Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle. |
| 11. | Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb )
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| 12. | the act or process of shearing or being sheared. |
| 13. | a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep): a sheep of one shear. |
| 14. | the quantity, esp. of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing. |
| 15. | one blade of a pair of large scissors. |
| 16. | 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. |
| 17. | a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it. |
| 18. | 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. |
| 19. | 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. |
shear (shîr) Pronunciation Key
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