| Shear (shear) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Shear |
| [imp.
Sheared (?) or Shore (&?]);p. p.
Sheared or Shorn ((?)); p. pr. *** vb.
n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to
shear, cut, shave, AS |
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with
shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to
shear cloth.
To separate or sever with shears or a
similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface;
as, to shear a fleece.
To reap, as grain.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to
fleece.
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.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age
of sheep.
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.
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.
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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