shear in WordNet English dictionary

1. shear the wool from
   "shear sheep"
   fleece  shear 
   
2. become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
   shear 
   
3. cut with shears
   "shear hedges"
   shear 
   
4. cut or cut through with shears
   "shear the wool off the lamb"
   shear 
   

1. a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
   shear 
   
2. (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"
   shear