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transitive verb1 a: to cut off the hair from b: to cut or clip (as hair or wool) from someone or something
; also : to cut something from <shear a lawn> cchiefly Scottish : to reap with a sickle d: to cut or trim with shears or a similar instrument2: to cut with something sharp3: to deprive of something as if by cutting <lives shorn of any hope
— M. W. Browne>4 a: to subject to a shear force b: to cause (as a rock mass) to move along the plane of contactintransitive verb1: to cut through something with or as if with a sharp instrument2chiefly Scottish : to reap crops with a sickle3: to become divided under the action of a shear
— shear·er noun
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