Word Meaning

Meaning of "sheard" and the crossword clue

- Clip fleece
- Clip wool
- Cut (fleece)
- Cut wool from
- Cut wool from sheep
- Hears edited clip
- Large scissor
- Share out crop
- Use clippers
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- See Shard.