Shear vs Chear - What's the difference?
shear | chear |
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
* Shakespeare
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
(physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
* Dryden
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
* Youatt
(physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
(obsolete) cheer
* , "Songs of Innoncence" : Introduction (1789)
*:Piping down the valleys wild
*:Piping songs of pleasant glee
*:On a cloud I saw a child.
*:And he laughing said to me :
*:"Pipe a song about a Lamb!"
*:''So I piped with merry chear .
As nouns the difference between shear and chear
is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while chear is (obsolete) cheer.As a verb shear
is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.As an adjective shear
is .shear
English
(wikipedia shear)Verb
- So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
- the golden tresses were shorn away
- (Jamieson)
Noun
(en noun)- short of the wool, and naked from the shear
- After the second shearing, he is a two-shear' ram; at the expiration of another year, he is a three-' shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
