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SHEAR, pret. sheared pp. sheared or shorn. The old pret. shore is entirely obsolete.

1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument as, to shear sheep to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox.
2. To separate by shears as, to shear a fleece.
3. To reap. Not in use. Scotish.

SHEAR, To deviate. See Sheer.

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Entry for 'Shear'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/shear.html.
 
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