Shears meaning

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Any of several large tools or machines used to cut metal, etc. by the scissors action of two opposed cutting edges.
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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.
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Plural form of shear.
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(plural only) A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc.
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shear.
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Shears Sentence Examples

  • Men do cut sheep's wool off with large shears, and send it to the mill.

  • Shears are only known of Roman age and appear to have been an Italian invention: there is a type in Egypt with one blade detachable, so that each can be sharpened apart.

  • They must be kept trimmed in or clipped, especially in their earlier stages; trimming with the knife is much to be preferred to clipping with shears.

  • Atropos is most frequently represented with scales, a sun-dial or a cutting instrument, the "abhorred shears," with which she slits the thin-spun thread of life that has been placed on the spindle by Clotho and drawn off by Lachesis.

  • Then the difference between the normal pressure on a rectangular element in the lower plane and that on the upper plane is the weight of the element and the difference between the shears on the vertical faces of that element.

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