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单词 shearleg
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shear /shēr/

transitive verb (pat sheared or (archaic and poetic) shore; pap shorn, also, less commonly in ordinary senses, but always of deformation and usu of metal-cutting, sheared)
  1. To cut, or clip, esp with shears
  2. To strip, fleece (also figurative)
  3. To cut superfluous nap from
  4. To achieve or make by cutting
  5. To tonsure
  6. To reap with a sickle (Scot)
  7. To subject to a shear (engineering and physics)
intransitive verb
  1. To separate
  2. To cut
  3. To penetrate
  4. To reap with a sickle (Scot)
noun
  1. A shearing or clipping
  2. A strain, stress, or deformation in which parallel planes remain parallel, but move parallel to themselves (engineering and physics)
ORIGIN: OE sceran; ON skera to clip, Ger scheren to shave

shearˈer noun

  1. A person who shears sheep
  2. A reaper (Scot)

shearˈing noun

shearˈling noun

  1. A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
  2. The fleece of such a sheep, usu of inferior quality

shears plural noun

  1. Orig scissors (also Scot)
  2. Now a larger pair of clippers, or any scissorlike cutting instrument, with a pivot or spring
  3. A hoisting apparatus (see sheers under sheer2)

shear force noun

A force that tends to cause sliding of adjacent layers relative to each other, in a material

shearˈ-hog noun

A shearling

shearˈ-hulk, shearˈleg see under sheer2

shearing shed noun (Aust and NZ)

A building in which sheep are shorn, esp one specially equipped with several power-driven shears, shearing platforms and wool-baling machines

shearˈman noun

A textile worker who shears superfluous nap from cloth

shear pin noun

A pin, which, as a safety mechanism, will shear and halt a machine or power-transmission when the correct load or stress is exceeded

shearˈ-steel noun

Steel suitable for making shears, etc

shearˈwater noun

A seabird of the family Procellariidae, related to the petrels, that skims the water when flying low

shear zones plural noun (geology)

Bands in metamorphic rocks consisting of crushed and brecciated material and many parallel fractures

sheer2 /shēr/

intransitive verb
  1. (with off or away) to deviate
  2. To take oneself off, esp to evade something disagreeable
  3. To swerve
transitive verb

To cause to deviate

noun
  1. A deviation
  2. An oblique position
  3. The fore-and-aft upward curve of a ship's deck or sides
ORIGIN: Partly at least another spelling of shear; perh partly from the LGer or Du equivalent, scheren to cut, withdraw

sheers or shears plural noun

An apparatus for hoisting heavy weights, having legs or spars spread apart at their lower ends, and hoisting tackle at their joined tops

sheerˈ-hulk or shearˈ-hulk noun

  1. An old dismantled ship with a pair of sheers mounted on it
  2. Popularly, a mere hulk, as if from sheer1

sheerˈleg or shearˈleg noun

  1. One of the spars of sheers
  2. (in pl) sheers
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