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Sheared vs Sheaved - What's the difference?

sheared | sheaved |

As verbs the difference between sheared and sheaved

is that sheared is (shear) while sheaved is (sheave).

As an adjective sheaved is

(of straw) made into a sheaf.

sheared

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shear)

    • Anagrams

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    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

    sheaved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sheave)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of straw) Made into a sheaf

    • sheave

    English

    Etymology 1

    Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse . For more see .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.

    • Etymology 2

    See .

    Verb

    (sheav)
  • to gather and bind into a sheaf
  • * , Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
    • ''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
    ''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
    ''Their country's harvest.
    See also
    * (pulley)

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