OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3275

shear

/ʃɪə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cizalla
A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
short of their wool, and naked from the shear
cizallado
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.
cizalladura
Forces that push in opposite directions.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3274

shear

/ʃɪə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
esquilar • tonsurar • tundir
To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
shear the llamas
cizallar • cortar
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…
the golden tresses […] were shorn away
cizallar • distorsionar
To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
Phrases