Shear vs Nott - What's the difference?
shear | nott |
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) Bald.
Of an animal: having no horns; polled.
*1850 , "On the Farming of Somerset", Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , vol. XI, p. 679:
*:For these and other reasons farmers who occupy good land in the vale with their hill farms are getting tired of the horned sheep, and use their hill farms only as summering-ground for nott sheep and bullocks.
*1891 , Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles :
*:Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?
As verbs the difference between shear and nott
is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while nott is (obsolete) to shear.As adjectives the difference between shear and nott
is that shear is while nott is (obsolete) bald.As a noun shear
is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.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.
