“You can shear a sheep for life, but you can only slaughter it once” goes an old saying that sportsbooks seem to have heeded. From The Wall Street Journal

SHEAR meaning: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

Though shear and sheer sound the same, their meanings diverge significantly. Shear refers to cutting or force-induced displacement within materials, whereas sheer signifies extremity or purity in terms of …

Definition of shear verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off. In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else. [VERB noun]

shear verb To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising:

shear /ʃɪə/ vb (shears, shearing, sheared) ( Austral NZ shore, sheared, shorn) (transitive) to remove (the fleece or hair) of (sheep, etc) by cutting or clipping

Shear definition: To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.

The meaning of SHEAR is to cut off the hair from. How to use shear in a sentence.

Shear refers to the deformation or strain in a material's structure where adjacent layers slide past one another, like when a deck of cards is shifted. It is also a measure of force that is applied parallel or …