The meaning of SHEAR is to cut off the hair from. How to use shear in a sentence.

Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of the machine.

SHEAR definition: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

Shear refers to the act of cutting something, especially wool from sheep, or to the stress in structural elements causing layers to slide against each other. Sheer, on the other hand, …

To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off. In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else. [VERB noun]

shear verb To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising:

SHEAR meaning: 1 : to cut the hair, wool, etc., off (an animal); 2 : to cut off (an animal's hair, wool, etc.) often + off

5 days ago · shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared) (intransitive, transitive) To …

Shear definition: To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.

Definition of shear verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.