To cut the hair of (a person).
shear the afro off someone's head
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
short of their wool, and naked from the shear
Misspelling of sheer.
A surname.
Real people in a picture that was used by a catfish to create a fake identity could have a claim because their likeness was used without permission, Shear said.
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cogn...
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A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.