Front | shear |
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Pron | [ʃɪr] |
Back | 【shear】 v. 修剪 The farmers sheared the wool from the sheep. 农夫从羊身上剪羊毛。 |
Vocab | shearcut or cut through with shears
A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears. In farming, when you remove wool from a sheep, goat, or even a llama, you shear the animal. Most farmers shear their sheep once a year, but the timing varies from farm to farm. The verb shear also means to cause to break off or come apart with a cutting force. The wind during a storm can blow hard enough to shear the tiles off a roof. All forms of 'shear' will appear on average once every 1337 pages. shear sheared shearer shearing shears unsheared |
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