Noun: shears
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: scissors
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Cut with a shears using long, even strokes. [1974, Phyllis W. Schwebke, Margaret B. Krohn, How to Sew Leather, Suede, Fur, page 20:]
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the shears of a lathe or planer
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two sharp winged Shears, Decked with divers Plumes, like painted Jays, Were fixed at his Back, to cut his airy ways. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like shears
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Verbs referencing "shears"
German Nouns
Schere.