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Shears vs Forfex - What's the difference?

shears | forfex |

As nouns the difference between shears and forfex

is that shears is while forfex is (obsolete) a pair of shears.

As a verb shears

is (shear).

shears

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum) A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc
  • The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
    • the shears of a lathe or planer
  • An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.

    • Usage notes

    * The tool was once used in the singular.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shear)

    • Anagrams

    *

    forfex

    English

    Noun

    (forfices)
  • (obsolete) A pair of shears.
    • (Alexander Pope)
  • * Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of antiquities
    • the Classical forfices
    (Webster 1913) ----