Trim, as an alpaca

Usage examples of shear.

Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.

A double-ended pipe shear would kill every man aft, maybe you guys too.

A severe downdraft or wind shear is scary at cruising altitude, but not life-threatening if you have a seatbelt on.

There was only the sound of the rain and the rasp of breathing while the girl, mute, amnesiac, shorn, and wasted, climbed out over the brink of the mine-shaft.

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.

Now that Dorothy had been scrubbed and boiled and shorn for months, she was clean enough to sit next to Aunty Em.

I sat down close by her, and telling me that she had long desired to make my acquaintance, she begged me to relate the history of the locks of hair sheared by her venerable uncle.

His bathing completed, a fifth Kalmyk entered the chamber, this one bearing with him the basin, razors, shears, and other paraphernalia of the barber, plus a chest of cour bouilli slung over his shoulder.

I am a little ashamed to write of my shifts and contrivances to save my dignity, but perhaps if I had not been a bride, and shorn of all the glories of bridehood through Mrs.

In a shearing shed in full swing in a good season it would have been quids, half-quids, casers, and at the lowest half-casers permitted.

It was late August, and occasionally I was sheared by a cutting wind when I stepped onto the High Street from the windbreak in the narrow path between Cheadle House and the library.

The wool from Terran sheep raised on Ferguson grew up to eighteen inches long and was remarkably fine, but the Headman was shearing his citizenry closer than ever they did their sheep.

Turning his attention back to the cog now that he was near enough to see it, Jherek knew from the way it had broken in half that the ship had been sheared by its enemy.

Near the flitter, a hill Telk with oversize shears was energetically trying to cut a village Telk in half.

I was a sheep for the fleecing, and if some of the fleecers got their fingers catched in the shears, it was their own fault.