What is the name meaning of SHEAR. Phrases containing SHEAR
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Irish
peace from God'.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : patronymic from Shear.
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English
English : nickname for a beautiful or radiant person, or one with fair hair, from Middle English scher, schir ‘bright’, ‘fair’.
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Biblical
The remnant shall return.
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English
English : variant of Shear.
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a gap between hills, from Middle English sherd, sharde (Old English sceard, a derivative of sceran ‘to cut or shear’).
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Biblical
Gate of the Lord, tempest of the Lord.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : Americanized spelling of Shearer.Jewish (Israeli) : variant of Shira.
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English
English : variant of Shear 1.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Scher.
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English German
meaning 'shireman' or 'shearman.
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English (Bath)
English (Bath) : unexplained.
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English
English : patronymic from Shear 1.
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English
English : variant spelling of Shearer.Possibly an Americanized form of German Schürer, a southern variant of Scheurer.
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English
English : variant spelling of Shear 1.Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as two syllables : Hindu (Vani) name, probably from Marathi šera ‘rate’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Shears or possibly a variant of Shires.
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English
English : nickname for a swift runner, from Middle English schere(n) ‘to shear’ + wind ‘wind’.
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English
English : variant of Sherman 1. The surname is also well established in Ireland.
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English
English : occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English shereman ‘shearer’.Americanized spelling of German Schuermann.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.Roger Sherman (1722–93), the only man to sign all three documents at the foundation of the American republic (the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution), was born in Newton, MA, a descendant of Capt. John Sherman, who had emigrated in about 1636 to MA from Dedham, Essex, England, where his father was a farmer, following his brother Edmund, who had emigrated two years earlier. A descendant of Edmund Sherman was the U.S. general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–91), who led the Union march through GA. He was born in Lancaster, OH, the son of a judge; his middle name was bestowed in honor of a Shawnee chieftain.
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English
English : variant spelling of Shear.
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Biblical
He that presses the fleece; that shears the sheep.
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Hindu
A Shakti of Ganesh
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Celtic Gaelic
Harmony, stone, or noble. Also fair, handsome. Originally a saint's name, it was reintroduced to...
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English
Tall.. Surname.
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Indian
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Hindu, Indian
Prayer
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Bengali, Indian
Lord Krishna
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Australian, Latin
Father of the Sky; Form of Jovan
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African, Arabic, Swahili
Successor; Viceroy; Caliph
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Bengali, Celebrity, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Mythological, Oriya, Punjabi, Sikh, Telugu
God of Courage
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American, Australian, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Greek, Latin, Lebanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slavic, Ukrainian
Fairy Princess; Fairy Queen; Roman Clan Names Tatius; Similar to an Ancient Italian Name; Myth Name; Female Version of Roman Family Clan Name Tatius; A Saint's Name
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n.
A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
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of Shearman
v. t.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
v. t.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
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A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
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The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
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One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
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Act of shearing sheep.
v. t.
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
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One who shears.
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The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
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Anything in the form of shears.
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A sheep but once sheared.
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The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
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The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
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One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
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The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
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Same as Shearling.