shear

Noun

• a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

• (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
  • the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram
    

Verb

• become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

• cut or cut through with shears
  • shear the wool off the lamb
    

• shear the wool from
  • shear sheep
    

• cut with shears
  • shear hedges