shear
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
Seen in the wild
Jenlis The Original Weed Razer, Lake Weed Cutter, Large Pond Aquatic Plant Cutting Tool, Long and Sharp Razor Blades Shear Cattail, Reed, Lilly & Chara Algae, 48 Inch Cut Width, 25 Foot Throw Rope #Reed #Jenlis #Garde…
Sharf Gold Touch Pet Grooming Shear Kit 7.5 Inch Straight & 6.5" 42-Tooth Thinning Scissors #groomingskit #groomingshears #goldtouch
Stratiform rain overspreads the area this morning, exiting early afternoon. Thunderstorms develop along the frontal boundary later, especially east of the Blue Ridge. Highs near 60s. Shear is ample. CAPE is the open q…
Jenlis Weed Razer Express, Lake Weed Cutter, Compact Aquatic Pond Plant Cutting Tool, Sharp Razor Blades Shear Cattail, Reed, Phragmites Lilly & Chara Algae, 30 Inch Cut Width, 25 Foot Throw Rope #weedremoval #plantcu…
Urgent pilot report at 1620Z: PIT UUA /OV RY 28L/TM 1620/FLDURD/TP E145/WV NO SHEAR/TB BUMPY
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To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
“Urgent pilot report at 1620Z: PIT UUA /OV RY 28L/TM 1620/FLDURD/TP E145/WV NO SHEAR/TB BUMPY”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The levels themselves are all amazingly gorgeous beyond description. The amount of tuning for the shaders must've taken ages to get just right and the shear amount of different locales is staggering.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dangerously smelly,but for a shear weapon of force? not very much yeenies just have lil feather dusters”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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To cut the hair of (a person).
shear the afro off someone's head
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(intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
shear the llamas
“Jenlis The Original Weed Razer, Lake Weed Cutter, Large Pond Aquatic Plant Cutting Tool, Long and Sharp Razor Blades Shear Cattail, Reed, Lilly & Chara Algae, 48 Inch Cut Width, 25 Foot Throw Rope #Reed #Jenlis #GardeningTool #WeedRazer #LakeWeedCutter”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Sharf Gold Touch Pet Grooming Shear Kit 7.5 Inch Straight & 6.5" 42-Tooth Thinning Scissors #groomingskit #groomingshears #goldtouch”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Stratiform rain overspreads the area this morning, exiting early afternoon. Thunderstorms develop along the frontal boundary later, especially east of the Blue Ridge. Highs near 60s. Shear is ample. CAPE is the open question, as usual.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Jenlis Weed Razer Express, Lake Weed Cutter, Compact Aquatic Pond Plant Cutting Tool, Sharp Razor Blades Shear Cattail, Reed, Phragmites Lilly & Chara Algae, 30 Inch Cut Width, 25 Foot Throw Rope #weedremoval #plantcutter #pondweed”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dipendra Gupta, Gregory P. Bewley: Experimental Evidence for Longitudinal Scaling Exponent Saturation in Shear Turbulence https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01867 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01867 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01867”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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