shear
verb
[ ʃɪə ]
• cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).
• "Paul has never sheared a sheep before"
• break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain.
• "the gear sheared and jammed in the rear wheel"
shear
noun
• a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other.
• "the water from the upper source is emitted at the same speed as the main flow; there is thus no shear"
Origin:
Old English sceran (originally in the sense ‘cut through with a weapon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning ‘divide, shear, shave’.
