Crossword-Solution: SHEAR 5 letters, 163 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Shear	v. t.	To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Shear	v. t.	To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Shear	v. t.	To reap, as grain.
Shear	v. t.	Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear	v. t.	To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shear	v. t.	A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
Shear	v. t.	A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
Shear	v. t.	An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
Shear	v. t.	A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
Shear	v. i.	To deviate. See Sheer.
Shear	v. i.	To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHEAR	anagram	ASHER, ASHRE, HARES, HEARS, HERAS, RHEAS, RHESA, SERAH, SHARE, SHERA

We have 163 clues for the answer “SHEAR”

Clue	Answers
"All Through the Night" writer Jules	1 answer
"That's a deep cut!" said the shepherd	1 answer
"___ Madness," Paul Pörtner play set in a hair salon	1 answer
Barnyard trim	1 answer
Be a wool gatherer	1 answer
Clip a merino	1 answer
Clip ewes	1 answer
Clip fleece	1 answer
Clip fleece from	1 answer
Clip hair	1 answer
Clip sheep	1 answer
Clip the wool from	1 answer
Clip wool	1 answer
Clip wool from	1 answer
Clip wool from sheep.	1 answer
Clip, as a Cotswold	1 answer
Clip, as sheep	1 answer
Clip, as wool	1 answer
Collect wool	1 answer
Cut ewe down?	1 answer
Cut off, as fleece	1 answer
Cut the wool from	1 answer
Cut the wool off of	1 answer
Cut wool	1 answer
Cut wool from	1 answer
Cut wool from sheep	1 answer
Cut, as sheep's wool	1 answer
Cut, as wool	1 answer
Denude, maybe	1 answer
Do a fleecing job	1 answer
Do a sheep job	1 answer
Do a sheep-ranch chore	1 answer
Do a shepherd's annual job	1 answer
Do a shepherd's task	1 answer
Do some fleecing	1 answer
Do some wool gathering	1 answer
Fleece, as a sheep	1 answer
Flier's hazard	1 answer
Gather fleece	1 answer
Gather fleeces	1 answer
Gather some wool	1 answer
Gather wool	1 answer
Gather wool from	1 answer
Gather wool, in a way	1 answer
Get wool	1 answer
Get wool from sheep	1 answer
Harvest Wool	1 answer
Harvest wool from	1 answer
Harvest, as wool	1 answer
Hazardous wind phenomenon	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAEER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHEAR (5)

The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, “Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.” The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country, where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow; rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Gabriel, who flitted and hovered under her bright eyes like a moth, did not shear continuously, half his time being spent in attending to the others and selecting the sheep for them.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Here, take thou thy gold again, for thou mayst well need it, and let me shear a lock of thy golden hair, and I shall be well apaid for my keeping silence concerning thy love.

The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Who is there strong enough Shake such a bag?' 'What parson tellin' you, Ole Mister Dodd, Tell you in Sunday-school? Big feller God! He drive His bullock dray, Then thunder go, He shake His flour bag -- Tumble down snow!' The Two Devines It was shearing-time at the Myall Lake, And there rose the sound thro' the livelong day Of the constant clash that the shear-blades make When the fastest shearers are making play, But there wasn't a man in the shearers' lines That could shear a sheep with the two Devines.

The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995

Quotes with SHEAR (3)

I believe in life. I believe it to be something that is eternal, powerful and spread throughout the universe -- something like gravity. There are many such energies. Once we are able to detect life it will boggle our minds for centuries to come. The shear magnitude will rapture many, and destroy others, but we're not there yet. We can say something is alive, or dead, but not if life is there or not. Perhaps because it is too quiet, maybe because it is so loud we can hear noth…

Glenn Hefley

Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North America. In scenario 1, the San Andreas fault is the sole locus of motion. Baja California and coastal California shear away from the rest of the continent to form a long, skinny island. A short ferry ride across the San Andreas Strait connects LA to San Francisco. In scenario 2, al…

Keith Meldahl Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

JohnA Passaro 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 223 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).