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to cut (something).

to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument.

to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from.

to strip or deprive (usually followed byof ).

Chiefly Scot.��to reap with a sickle.

to travel through by or as if by cutting.

to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument.

to progress by or as if by cutting.

Mechanics, Geology.��to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane.

Chiefly Scot.��to reap crops with a sickle.

(sometimes used with a singular verb)��Usually shears.

1. scissors of large size (usually used withpair of ).

2. any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.

the act or process of shearing or being sheared.

a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep).

the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.

one blade of a pair of large scissors.

Also called shear legs,.��Also called sheerlegs.��(usually used with a plural verb)��Usually shears. Also sheers a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.

a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it.

Mechanics, Geology.��the tendency of forces to deform or fracture a member or a rock in a direction parallel to the force, as by sliding one section against another.

Physics.��the lateral deformation produced in a body by an external force, expressed as the ratio of the lateral displacement between two points lying in parallel planes to the vertical distance between the planes.