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• shear — vb Shear, poll, clip, trim, prune, lop, snip, crop are comparable when they mean to cut off something (as a piece, an excrescence, or a limb). Shear is the most general word of this group; it usually implies the use of a sharp cutting instrument… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• shear — [c]/ʃɪə / (say shear) verb (sheared or shore, shorn or sheared, shearing) –verb (t) 1. to remove by or as by cutting with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep. 2. to cut the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from. 3. to reap with a sickle. 4 …  

• share-grass — variant of shear grass …   Useful english dictionary

• Cornelius Lott Shear — (1865–1956) was an American mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1908 he created the American Phytopathological Society.[1] He was the first to describe the grass Bromus arizonicus.[2] The standard author abbreviation Shear is used to indicate… …   Wikipedia

• shargrase — shargras(s)e obs. forms of shear grass …   Useful english dictionary

• shargrasse — shargras(s)e obs. forms of shear grass …   Useful english dictionary

• sheeregrasse — obs. form of shear grass …   Useful english dictionary

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