shears 
shears (s̸hirz)
- a pair of scissors, usually large, as used in gardening
- any of several large tools or machines used to cut metal, etc. by the scissors action of two opposed cutting edges
- a device used in hoisting, consisting of two or more guyed poles or legs spread at the base and joined at the top to hold hoisting tackle
shears
n.
Types of shears include: lever, alligator, crocodile, barber's, blending, cuticle, dressmaker's, metal-cutting, grass, sheepshearing, revolving, rotary, pruning, pinking, buttonhole, guillotine, power; shearing machine.
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Mydefinition of marriage It resembles a pairof shears, so joined that theycannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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