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Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith]



Definitions of: shear

Definition: To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

Definition: To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

Definition: To reap, as grain.

Definition: Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Definition: To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Definition: To deviate. See Sheer.

Definition: 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.

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