Synonyms:
shear
Meaning: (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
shear
Meaning: cut with shears; "shear hedges"
Usage examples
No: and if he saw fit to shear as much wool from a lamb six months old, as from a ram of two years; or, if he required as much work from a young dog as from an old one,--they would say, not that he was unjust, but that he was foolish.