Shear is valid Scrabble Word

Is shear a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for SHEAR in dictionary:

VERB:

to cut the wool or hair from
cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)
cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears
have something cut off
break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain
clip hair or wool from
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
To reap, as grain.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
To deviate. See Sheer.
To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
cut with shears
shear the wool from
cut or cut through with shears
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

NOUN:

a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
breakage caused through strain or twisting

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cut the hair or wool from

Words related to SHEAR

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Words that contain SHEAR

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How to use SHEAR in a sentence

I eat my own lamb, My own chicken and ham, I shear my own sheep and wear it.
Shear also kindly gave us some food to eat on the road.
She said her work was worth three dollars, that is what one man would get a day shearing, and he could easily shear her sheep in one day.
The greatest shear at C for any position of the load occurs when the head of the train is at C.
For any load p between C and B will increase the reaction at B and therefore the shear at C by part of p, but at the same time will diminish the shear at C by the whole of p.
For a train advancing from the left, the travelling load shear in the left half of the span is of a different sign from that due to the dead load.
Similarly, po is the reaction at B and shear at any point of CB.
Later we had to shear their legs, because the long hair loaded up so badly with snow.
Assurance of his own salvation had come to him one day when he was shearing sheep, and when, as he related often, finding himself on his knees to shear, he remained to pray.
The leading marks for entering eastward of the Middle Ground, generally called the Eastern Channel, are the Shear and West Beacons.

The Shear Beacon and the flagstaff at George Town in a line lead over the outer extreme.
Failures of test specimens in shear along the grain 12.
Results of compression and shear tests on green structural timbers XX.
Results of compression and shear tests on air-seasoned structural timbers XXII.
Knowledge of shear parallel to the grain is important, since wood frequently fails in that way.
The effect of a failure in horizontal shear is to divide the beam into two or more beams the combined strength of which is much less than that of the original beam.
If the failure is not pure shear the test is culled.
The beads from the shear specimens will be used as moisture disks.
When God spake and said you were to feed them, not to shear and slaughter them, you ran away.
The sheet of stone which we wish to shear from place has a bed running horizontally at a depth of say 10 ft.
In some kinds of stone, notably sandstone, the material is so soft that it will break when acted upon by the force necessary to shear the block.

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