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1828 Definition

SHEARS, n. plu. [from the verb.]

1. An instrument consisting of two blades with a bevel edge, movable on a pin, used for cutting cloth and other substances by interception between the two blades. Shears differ from scissors chiefly in being larger.

Fate urg'd the shears and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.

2. Something in the form of the blades of shears.

3. Wings. [Not in use.]

4. An engine for raising heavy weights. [See Sheers.]

5. The denomimation of the age of sheep from the cutting of the teeth; as sheep of one shear, two shear, &c. [Local.]

1913 Definition
Shears (shears)
n. pl.(?)
Shears
[Formerly used also in the singular. See Shear, n., 1.]
  1. A cutting instrument.
    Specifically: (a)
  2. Anything in the form of shears.
    Specifically: (a)
  3. 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.

    Rotary shears. See under Rotary.


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