- For similarly pronounced words, see sheer, Shere, or sher.
Shear as a noun may refer to:
- Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
- Geological shear, a form of fault
- Guillotine (metalwork), also called a shear, a machine used to cut sheet metal
- Shear line, in lockpicking, where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock
- Shear (mathematics), a particular kind of linear mapping, also called transvections
- Shear stress and shear strength, in physics, a stress state refers to deformation of a body in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another
- Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind currents in the atmosphere
Shear as a verb or shearing may refer to
- Sheep shearing, the process of removing the wool from a sheep
- Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference
- Skin, specifically, the tearing and splitting of the layers
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Shearing - Twitter SearchBefore: http://flic.kr/p/7drkKQ After: http://flic.kr/p/7dntJi. Thanks to @kirstiebrown for the sheep shearing skills!sideshowtob (Toby Brown) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:07:58 -0000
Before: http://flic.kr/p/7drkKQ After: http://flic.kr/p/7dntJi. Thanks to @kirstiebrown for the sheep shearing skills!
Twisted Sheep Shearing, with bad language, family guy style: http://bit.ly/1dLVRT (I feel dirty now)GuidoS (Guido Stein) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:42:39 -0000
Twisted Sheep Shearing, with bad language, family guy style: http://bit.ly/1dLVRT (I feel dirty now)
Bassnectar, Kam Moye, Shearing Pinx (playing Windsor on Saturday), Etaoin Shrdlu, and Talk Normal were all featured in the last set of musicchrisrwhite (Chris White ) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:32:27 -0000
Bassnectar, Kam Moye, Shearing Pinx (playing Windsor on Saturday), Etaoin Shrdlu, and Talk Normal were all featured in the last set of music
Meridian Green,Juan Carlos Martin and George SHearing & Micheal Fienstien now playing.KACUFM (KACU-FM) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:20:06 -0000
Meridian Green,Juan Carlos Martin and George SHearing & Micheal Fienstien now playing.
â« The Best of George Shearing. http://tinyurl.com/ycr3mmtiJazzMusic (New iTunes Jazz) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:06:14 -0000
♫ The Best of George Shearing. http://tinyurl.com/ycr3mmt
@wawoodworth so they would also probably say shearing sheep is cruel.JFKingsmill16 (Joe Kingsmill) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:34 -0000
@wawoodworth so they would also probably say shearing sheep is cruel.
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Be Nice to Your Sheep Shearer - As sheep numbers have declined, so have the number of sheep shearers. So, if you are lucky enough to have a good shearer; keep him (or her).
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Cleavers Shearing - Servicing the shearing needs of a large area of NSW.
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E.J.Dunham, Shearing Service - Specializing in the shearing of sheep, alpaca, and llamas. Located in Lafayette, Oregon.
Eastern Woolpacks Ltd. - Our primary focus is the grading and repair of wool packs for supply back to wool growers for reuse.
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Gietzen Sheep Shearing - Sheep shearing and sheep shearing equipment, video. Located in Minot, ND.
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Robot Sheep Shearing - Line drawing demonstration of robotic sheep shearing machine in Australia.
Shearing World.com - Information including competitions, records, training, industry employers, and jobs.
South Dakota University Sheep Shearing School - Sheep shearing school information and application.
University of Tennessee Sheep Shearing School. - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville was founded in 1794 and was designated the state land-grant institution in 1879. Site offers information and application form for shearing school.
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