Definitions:

1. cut or cut through with shears verb
   • shear the wool off the lamb
2. cut with shears verb
   • shear hedges
3. in physics, a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves noun
   • The shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram.
4. shear the wool from verb
   • shear sheep

Synonyms:

• fleece

NearBy Words:

• sheared
• shearer
• shearing
• shears
• shearwater