1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping. 2. To remove the hair or fleece from. 3. shearing a hedge. 4. The prisoners were shorn of their dignity. 5. To use a cutting tool such as shears. 6. shear through the wheat. 7. To become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain. 8. A pair of scissors. Often used in the plural. 9. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action. Often used in the plural. 10. The act, process, or result of shearing. 11. Something cut off by shearing. 12. a two-shear ram. 13. An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top. 14. shear stress 15. A shearing strain.
