The meaning of SHEAR is to cut off the hair from. How to use shear in a sentence.

SHEAR meaning: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

shear verb To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising:

shear /ʃɪə/ vb (shears, shearing, sheared) ( Austral NZ shore, sheared, shorn) (transitive) to remove (the fleece or hair) of (sheep, etc) by cutting or clipping

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Shear strength Mam Tor road destroyed by subsidence and shear, near Castleton, Derbyshire. In engineering, shear strength is the strength of a material or component against the type of yield …

To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off. In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else. [VERB noun]

Even though the inner core is solid, it behaves like a softened metal, slowing seismic shear waves and displaying a Poisson's ratio more similar to butter than to steel.

SHEAR meaning: 1 : to cut the hair, wool, etc., off (an animal); 2 : to cut off (an animal's hair, wool, etc.) often + off

Definition of shear verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.