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To clip or trim with shears or a shearing tool
“It is never thought expedient to shear the wool more than once in the year, and the proper period is always when the old fleece is about to fall off.”
To cut with a knife or bladed implement
“The branch will naturally recover in time as long as you did not shear it off completely.”
To separate or be separated into parts
To bite at
A large scissor-like cutting tool with flat blades
“Using a shear to shear a pumpkin will turn it into a jack-o-lantern.”
Trans-sensing
A force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree
An act of clipping or trimming something
The force per unit area exerted by a fluid against a surface with which it is in contact
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