Crossword-Solution: SHEARS 6 letters, 98 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Shears	n.	A cutting instrument.
Shears	n.	An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
Shears	n.	A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
Shears	n.	A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Shears	n.	Anything in the form of shears.
Shears	n.	A pair of wings.
Shears	n.	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.
Shears	n.	The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHEARS	anagram	ASHERS, RASHES, RESASH, SHARES

We have 98 clues for the answer “SHEARS”

Clue	Answers
Landscaper's aid	1 answer
Removes with clippers	1 answer
Removers of locks	1 answer
Poultry preparation tool	1 answer
Pair used for trimming	1 answer
Operates on sheep	1 answer
Obtains wool	1 answer
Notions tool	1 answer
Means for creating clippings	1 answer
Makes cuts	1 answer
Large tool	1 answer
Large scissors	1 answer
Salon need	1 answer
Hedge trimmers	1 answer
Hedge trimmer's tool	1 answer
Hedge fund expense?	1 answer
Hedge cuttters	1 answer
Heavy scissors	1 answer
Hairdresser's tool	1 answer
Gets wild and woolly	1 answer
Garden clippers	1 answer
Fleecing tool	1 answer
Farm hygiene tool	1 answer
Dressmaker's tool	1 answer
Tool used to remove wool	1 answer
Cutting gear	1 answer
shear legs	1 answer
gardening scissors	1 answer
Woolshed tool	1 answer
Woolgathers?	1 answer
Woolgatherer's need	1 answer
Wool-gathering aid	1 answer
Wool gatherer's tool	1 answer
Wool gatherer's need	1 answer
Wool clippers	1 answer
Topiarist's tool	1 answer
Dressmaker's equipment.	1 answer
Tool for gathering wool	1 answer
They may produce bangs	1 answer
Tailor's scissors	1 answer
Shrub cutters	1 answer
Sheep-farm tools	1 answer
Sheep's undoing	1 answer
Shaves a sheep	1 answer
Sgt. Pepper's lead singer Billy	1 answer
Sgt. Pepper singer Billy	1 answer
Sewer need	1 answer
Secateurs	1 answer
Cuts wool from	1 answer
"Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred ___”—Lycidas.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble SHEARS 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in S 6-letter words containing HE 6-letter words containing RS 6-letter words with S and H

Sentences with SHEARS (5)

PERPLEXITY—GRINDING THE SHEARS—A QUARREL “He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire,” Bathsheba said, musingly.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The front porch, to be sure, was dripping with crimson ramblers that ought to be cut for the good of the vines; but never the rose in the hand for Tillie! She caught up the kitchen shears and off she dashed through grass and drenching dew.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

The transmissions in eleven foreign languages were also relayed by three short wave transmitters, two belonging to the telegraph company Cable & Wireless (callsigns SUV & SUW), and an experimental transmitter of 7.5 kilowatts belonging to a British army signals unit, with the odd callsign JCJC, operated by young corporal Rowley Shears G8KW, a radio amateur friend of Norman Joly.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

The shark’s jaws opened wide, like a pair of factory shears, and it would have been all over with the Captain; but, quick as thought, harpoon in hand, Ned Land rushed towards the shark and struck it with its sharp point.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

With a view to this, always scrape your buffs with a dull knife, or with one blade of your shears, the first thing in the morning, and after brushing them thoroughly, dry them, either in the sun, by a stove, or in the buff-dryer.

American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994

Quotes with SHEARS (3)

I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close th…

Kelly McCullough WebMage

How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)

Manjul Bajaj Another Man's Wife and Other Stories

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 102 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).