An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Cheap wine.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To pull or twitch sharply.
To remove feathers from a bird.
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
Wind shear, or an instance thereof.
A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
Forces that push in opposite directions.
To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
To make a vertical cut in coal.
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.
To cut the hair of (a person).
To deprive of property; to fleece.
To reap, as grain.
To change in direction or speed.