Scrabble & Words with friends points
- shear is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
- shear is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
- shear is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of shear
- shear the wool from (verb)
Examples
- shear sheep
Synonyms
- fleece
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it (noun)
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain (verb)
- cut or cut through with shears (verb)
Examples
- shear the wool off the lamb
- cut with shears (verb)
Examples
- shear hedges
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves (noun)
Examples
- the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram
See definition of shear in Merriam Webster