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shears
/ ʃɪə /
plural noun
- large scissors, as for cutting cloth, jointing poultry, etc
- a large scissor-like and usually hand-held cutting tool with flat blades, as for cutting hedges
- any of various analogous cutting or clipping implements or machines
- short for sheerlegs
- off the shears informal.(of a sheep) newly shorn
Example Sentences
She encounters elves fixing the trashed house, models playing Twister in high heels, Jesus opening a fridge to check for food and a woman destroying a Christmas tree with garden shears.
That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.
"I get the sheep shears on it for a mullet," she said.
“I can’t imagine how frightened those horses must have been,” Brad said as he cropped the grass tightly around the marble stone with garden shears.
As our planet’s atmosphere warms, wind shears — variations in wind direction or speed — within jet streams are increasing and therefore strengthening clear-air turbulence.
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