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SHEARS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large scissors with strong blades
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shears" is a kind of...):
pair of scissors; scissors (an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shears"):
clipper (shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural))
pruning shears (shears with strong blades used for light pruning of woody plants)
snips; tinsnips ((plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal)
thinning shears (shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair)
Derivation:
shear (cut with shears)
shear (shear the wool from)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb shear
Context examples:
Next, by means of the shears, I hoisted the main boom on board.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Maud stood silently by my side, while I evolved in my mind the contrivance known among sailors as “shears.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
No reference was made on either side to the destruction of the shears; nor did he say anything further about my leaving his ship alone.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The shears rose in the air.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was wild with desire, like a child with a new toy, to hoist something with my shears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Everything in readiness, I made a line fast to the apex of the shears and carried it directly to the windlass.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In less than an hour I had the maintopmast on deck and was constructing the shears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that I intended making the shears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“And the worst of it is, he knows it. You are right. If he has destroyed the shears, I shall do nothing except begin over again.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“The shears,” she said, and her voice trembled.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
