1. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
   "naked as a sheared sheep";
   - shorn
    
2. (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
   "a coat of sheared lamb"

1. Cut to the desired shape or thickness using shears
   "shear hedges"
    
2. Cut or cut through with shears
   "shear the wool off the lamb"
    
3. Shave the wool from
   "shear sheep";
   - fleece
    
4. (physics) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
   "The metal sheared under the intense pressure"

See also: cut

Type of: change, clip, crop, cut, cut back, dress, lop, prune, shave, snip, trim

Antonym: unsheared

Encyclopedia: Shear, William