Word Meanings - SHEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear

Additional info about word: SHEAR

To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. Shak. 3. To reap, as grain. Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHEAR)

• Fleece
• Strip
• despoil
• shear
• Graze
• Shave
• scrape
• skim
• abrade

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHEAR)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to SHEAR)

• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SHEARS
  The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SHEARBILL
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
• FLEECER
  One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• SHEARN
  Dung; excrement. Holland.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTURE
  A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SHEARWATER
  Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• FLEECE
  The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden. (more info) 1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE