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Shear vs Plowshare - What's the difference?

shear | plowshare |

Shear is a see also of plowshare.


As nouns the difference between shear and plowshare

is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while plowshare is the cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.

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

  • To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
    • 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.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the golden tresses were shorn away
  • To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
  • (physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
  • (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
    • (Jamieson)
  • (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
  • * Dryden
    • short of the wool, and naked from the shear
  • the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
  • * Youatt
    • 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.
  • (physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
  • (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.

    • Derived terms

    * megashear * shearer

    Adjective

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    plowshare

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ploughshare

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.
    • And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares , and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)

    Related terms

    * plough * plow * share

    See also

    * scallop * scar * shear