Shears is valid Scrabble Word

Is shears a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is shears valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for SHEARS 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
A cutting instrument.
An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.

Anything in the form of shears.
A pair of wings.
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.
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
large scissors with strong blades

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cut the hair or wool from

Words related to SHEARS

shear8 sheared11 shearing12 shore8 shorn8

Words that contain SHEARS

mishears13 clipshears17

How to use SHEARS in a sentence

At first I started shearing, And I bought a pair of shears.
XENIEN With small sharp shears, in insect guise, Behold us at your revel! That we may tender, filial-wise, Our homage to the devil.
Every boy, and there were ten of them, had a basket and a pair of shears.
So the Prince brought a pair of shears and cut the Dragon into equal lengths to use on his violin.
At last it showed itself, and was immediately gripped with the shears.
The night cometh, and the shears with it, when no man can work.
They set up on the sand two stout wooden pieces, exactly like, a pair of enormous shears.
Lo, the shears and the goose remained unknown to him, and he made his stay under the paternal roof as brief as possible.
A pair of large shears swing prominently from an upright partition.
Paul and two of his crew entered, but before descending to the bottom, gave orders to those manning the shears, to hoist at the expiration of twenty minutes.

When a letter comes to me I clip open the end with my shears, like a gentleman, read it, and put it back in the envelope.
Then it seized a pair of shears and set to work clipping solid pages from books and magazines.
If the edges are much frayed, trim them slightly with the shears.
Like the opposite sides of a pair of shears, though cutting against each other, they only injured whatever was between them.
Some of the scissors and shears they used have come to light in excavations.
With a pair of shears he proceeded to cut from one of these some pieces, rather more than a foot square.
If they do not, it may be necessary to bend them back and either remove some metal with the shears or to work the metal over farther.
With the metal shears, cut out the outline as indicated by the drawing.
Next lay out the holding cup according to the plan of development shown, and cut out the shape with the shears.
Cut out the outline with metal shears and file the edges smooth.
Trace this shape on the metal with the carbon paper and cut it out by means of metal shears.
All the keys I had were traced on a piece of paper and their forms cut out with a pair of shears.
It shears a man of his heroic proportions, to hear he has to be dragged out of bed.
Gladstone gave him at Hawarden, and the shears that Charles A.
Dana and begged the shears, receiving the promise that he should have them left to him in Mr.
My mother and my aunt set to work with shears and needles and built me a suit of clothes out of the brown overcoat.
And when he did any shrewd deed they would beat him with rods, and so they clipped him with shears and made him like a fool.
And when at the first movement of the shears she felt the cold iron against her skull, I tell you it seemed to her as if they were piercing her heart with a bright dagger.
It consists of a pair of lever-arms which work like scissors or shears.
She was dragged through the streets, taken to the executioner, and asked for the loan of his shears and cut off a lock of her hair.
Looking up, he discovered his visitors, and a smile illumined his rugged face, as he waved them a welcome with the big shears.
A quarrel ensued, and the knight of the needle and shears determined on revenge.

Similar words containing SHEAR without suffix s

shear8 mishear12 sheared11 shearer10 misheard14 mishears13 shearers11 shearing12 shearleg12 shearman13 shearmen13 clipshear16 shearings13 shearlegs13 shearling13 clipshears17 dishearten14 mishearing16 shearlings14 shearwater16 disheartens15 shearwaters17 disheartened17 sheepshearer20 disheartening18 sheepshearers21 sheepshearing22 disheartenment20 sheepshearings23 dishearteningly23 disheartenments21

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