shears
IPA: ʃˈɪrz
noun
- A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc.
- (engineering) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
- An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.
- Anything resembling a pair of shears in shape or motion, such as a pair of wings.
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Examples of "shears" in Sentences
- Beside the shears were the blackened hunks of fingertips, although Gil counted only three, not four.
- The blowout preventer, designed to cut off leaks with a series of valves and pipe shears, is still partially open.
- They are bound to think you are on your own, and their shears are all sharpened for the trimming of newcomers like you.
- I found a steel bedpan in one load and a pair of surgical shears in another the bedpan was of no practical use, but the shears were a damned handy kitchen implement.
- Ladon, Pheres, Demodocus; his gleaming sword shears off Strymonius 'hand as it rises to his throat; he strikes Thoas on the face with a stone, and drives the bones asunder in a shattered mass of blood and brains.
- As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.
- I was so mad that I went out to buy a tin shears to cut their cable just like how they had cut the cable off when we first moved into the house because they thought we were pirating the television signal because we chose not to subscribe to Spanish programming.
- I saw a plane with radar technology which just came back from dealing with the difficult incident in Waco, Texas; and another plane -- defense technology -- another plane with a different sort of technology now which can be put on all of our commercial air flights to detect wind shears, which is one of the major causes of airline misfortunes now among commercial airlines.