Shear vs Mow - What's the difference?
shear | mow |
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.
To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
*:Those that paint them dyingdelineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
* Shakespeare
To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
* Tyndale
A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
As verbs the difference between shear and mow
is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while mow is to cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.As nouns the difference between shear and mow
is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while mow is a scornful grimace; a wry face.As an adjective shear
is misspelling of lang=en.As an initialism MOW is
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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.
Derived terms
* megashear * shearerAdjective
(head)Anagrams
* English irregular verbsmow
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )Verb
- He mowed the lawn .
Derived terms
* mow downEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Make mows at him.
Verb
(en verb)- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing .