Sheared is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHEARED in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHEAR, 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
NOUN:
• a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
ADJECTIVE:
• having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
• (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut the hair or wool from

Words related to SHEARED

shear8 shearing12 shears9 shore8 shorn8

How to use SHEARED in a sentence

• O infatuated ministers! Like a silly man, full of his prerogative over the beasts of the field, who says, there is wool on the back of a wolf, and therefore he must be sheared.
• When later he climbed back, a lock had been sheared from the side of his gray head.
• Its base was miles long and as straight as if it had been sheared off by machinery.
• One mother in Israel brought proudly to the Lake a piece of cloth, the wool for which she had sheared, dyed, spun, and woven during her march.
• We had herds of sheep, we sheared them and wove yarn for socks.
• The remnant of the hair and the gashes in the skin nearly resemble a sheared pelt of beaver.
• Consequently, in many cases, it is found better not to depend on a suspending wire thus sheared, but to adopt direct action.
• The man, the tree fallen, sheared off its wealth of fragrant tips, and laid the mass of it by the side of the great tree.
• The work expended on the crushed and sheared rock also contributes to the developing temperature.
• But first Ursula sheared his hair and his beard, till the face of him came back again, grave, and somewhat mocking, as Ralph remembered it, time was.
• The pungent odour of the eucalyptus trees, the light breeze stirred not the foliage, sheared into mathematical lines.
• In no case has a rivet been found sheared off, and even one good rivet appears to be sufficient to prevent rupture.
• Then the bolts sheared or the ironwork broke in a new place.
• The remnant of the hair, and the gashes in the skin, nearly resemble the sheared pelt of beaver.
• The bed of that river went in a vein through about three miles of mud, till it sheared into the land, and flowed into a proper-looking river with banks of its own.
• Others sheared asses, and thus got long fleece wool.
• When riveted plates slide on each other the rivets are sheared off.
• This may be explained on the ground that the growth of a fibre is by successive layers which, under the influence of compression, are sheared apart.
• In this way the strains on the fibres nearer the axis are progressively increased until finally all of the elements are sheared apart.
• There is a quite perceptible difference in the flavor of mutton from a sheep which had been for some time sheared of its woolly coat and that from one having a heavy fleece.
• His heavy shock was sheared off square above his neck.
• The effect of the blast is to make a vertical seam connecting the holes, and the entire mass of rock is sheared several inches or more.

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