Overview of verb shear

The verb shear has 4 senses

• shear -- (cut with shears; "shear hedges")


• fleece, shear -- (shear the wool from; "shear sheep")


• shear -- (cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb")


• shear -- (become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain)

Overview of adj sheared

The adj sheared has 2 senses

• sheared, shorn -- (having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep")


• sheared -- ((used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb")