<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.</li><li>A person who reaps.</li><li>Grim Reaper.</li><li>The act or process of shearing or being sheared.</li><li>A shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep): a sheep of one shear.</li><li>The quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.</li><li>A framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.</li><li>A machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it.</li><li>Usually shears. Also sheers.</li><li>One blade of a pair of large scissors.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To cut (something).</li><li>To remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep.</li><li>To cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep.</li><li>To strip or deprive (usually followed by of): to shear someone of power.</li><li>Chiefly Scot: to reap with a sickle.</li><li>To travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>