Definitions for shears
shears

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shearsnoun

   large scissors with strong blades

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shearsnoun

   A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shear, Shearsnoun

   It is seldom used in the singular, but is found once in Dryden.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. An instrument to cut, consisting of two blades moving on a pin, between which the thing cut is intercepted. Shears are large, and scissars a smaller instrument of the same kind.

   Alas, thought Philoclea to herself, your sheers come too late to clip the bird’s wings that already is flown away. Philip Sidney.

   Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
   Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
   Have I commandment on the pulse of life? William Shakespeare.

   The fates prepar’d their sharpen’d sheers. Dryd.

   When the fleece is shorn,
   Then their defenceless limbs the brambles tear;
   Short of their wool, and naked from the sheer. Dryden.

   That people live and die, I knew,
   An hour ago, as well as you;
   And if fate spins us longer years,
   Or is in haste to take the sheers,
   I know, we must both fortunes try,
   And bear our evils, wet or dry. Matthew Prior.

   How happy should we be if we had the privilege of employing the sheers for want of a mint, upon foreign gold, by clipping it into half crowns. Jonathan Swift.

   Fate urg’d the sheers and cut the sylph in twain,
   But airy substance soon unites again. Alexander Pope.

   Beneath the shears they felt no lasting smart,
   They lost but fleeces, while I lost a heart. John Gay.

   2. The denomination of the age of sheep.

   When sheep is one shear, they will have two broad teeth before; when two shear, four; when three, six; when four, eight: and after that, their mouths break. John Mortimer.

   3. Any thing in the form of the blades of sheers.4. Wings, in Edmund Spenser.

   Two sharp-wing’d sheers
   Deck’d with divers plumes, like painted jays,
   Were fix’d at his back to cut his airy ways. Edmund Spenser.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shears

   Shears are a type of cutting tool similar to scissors but typically larger and more robust. They have two large blades pivoted together which cut materials by overlapping each other when handles at the other ends are closed together. Shears are used for various purposes like gardening, metalworking, hair cutting etc. depending on their size and structure.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shearsnoun

   a cutting instrument

2. Shearsnoun

   an instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances

3. Shearsnoun

   a similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins

4. Shearsnoun

   a shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge

5. Shearsnoun

   anything in the form of shears

6. Shearsnoun

   a pair of wings

7. Shearsnoun

   an apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle

8. Shearsnoun

   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

9. Etymology: [Formerly used also in the singular. See Shear, n., 1.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shears

   See SHEERS.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SHEARS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shears is ranked #8596 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Shears surname appeared 3,831 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Shears.
   
   58.2% or 2,230 total occurrences were White.
   35% or 1,343 total occurrences were Black.
   4% or 155 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 70 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 24 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.2% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Scissors

Anagrams for shears »

1. ashers

2. her ass

3. rashes

4. shares

How to pronounce shears?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say shears in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shears in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shears in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of shears in a Sentence

1. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

2. Sydney Smith:

   It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shears
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shears
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shears
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shears
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=shears
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html