The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Tending to cut or tear.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To pull or twist violently.