Answer:
We have spotted SHEAR (5 Letters) a total of 21 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with SHEAR and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
| • | To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. |
| • | To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. |
| • | To reap, as grain. |
| • | Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. |
| • | To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. |
| • | A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. |
| • | A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. |
| • | An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress. |
| • | A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. |
| • | To deviate. See Sheer. |
| • | To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Remove wool from
- Shave, as sheep
- Cut
- Clip fleece from
- Cut close
- Gather wool
- Aviation hazard
- Cut off
- Cut wool from
- Gather fleeces
- Remove a big coat?
- Shave a sheep
Usage among publishers:
- Universal: Oct 17, 2024
- Newsday: Jun 19, 2024
- Newsday: May 13, 2024
- Newsday: Apr 22, 2024
- New York Times: Apr 20, 2024
- Eugene Sheffer: Jan 9, 2024
- Newsday: Oct 21, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Oct 18, 2023
- Universal: Sep 10, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Sep 6, 2023
- Universal: Mar 23, 2023
- Universal: Jan 13, 2023