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Definition of Sheared

1. Adjective. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers. "Naked as a sheared sheep"

2. Adjective. (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length. "A coat of sheared lamb"

Definition of Sheared

1. Verb. (past of shear) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheared

1. shear [v] - See also: shear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheared

shear fields shear flow shear legs shear rate shear strength shear stress shear stresses shear wall shear wave shear waves

shearability shearable shearbill sheard sheards sheared (current term) sheared flow shearer shearers shearfree

shearing shearings shearleg shearlegs shearless shearlike shearling shearlings shearman

Literary usage of Sheared

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"THE ROLLING OF sheared PLATES. Methods of Rolling Plates: As previously indicated, plates may be rolled either from ingots or from slabs, and on several ..."

2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"THE ROLLING OF sheared PLATES. Methods of Rolling Plates: As previously indicated, plates may be rolled either from ingots or from slabs, and on several ..."

3. Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1921)
"On this subject Mr. Reichmann has written thus: The designer should always remember to allow plenty of clearance at the ends of sheared members so as to ..."

4. Review of the Text of the American Standard Specifications for Steel by Albert Ladd Colby (1902)
"sheared Bending Tests.—The Committee's two specifications state that the sheared edges of the bending test specimens may be milled or planed. ..."

5. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"... sheared out of the way. The soldiers pressed along cursing and damning, towards the Town-house with naked bayonets in their hands. JOHN BROWN. ..."

6. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1853)
"They were thoroughly washed and sheared as soon as properly dry, shearing an average ... sheared ..."

7. Experimental Elasticity: A Manual for the Laboratory by George Frederick Charles Searle (1908)
"Stresses on the diagonal planes of a sheared cube. If we take a plane cutting the cube ABA'B' (Fig. 3) and parallel either to the face A or to the face B, ..."

8. Principles of Legislation: From the Ms. of Jeremy Bentham ... By M. Dumont by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont, John Neal, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1830)
"... Hair—Ghosts—Marked and sheared—Bed-chamber Habits—Mr. Smith, MP—Breakfast—Fruit before Dinner—His Bed—Servants—Theory and Practice at War—Bowring—Sir F. ..."

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