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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shearsnoun

    large scissors with strong blades

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Shear, Shearsnoun

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

    Etymology: from the verb.

    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.

    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.

    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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Terms

  1. shears

    See SHEERS.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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.

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  1. ashers

  2. her ass

  3. rashes

  4. shares

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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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