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单词 pair of shears
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pair of shears
(a) in plural form, with plural construction, either in singular or plural sense. When qualification by a numeral or an indefinite article is required, pair of shears is used.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun]
shearc725
abscissor?a1425
scissors?a1425
scissorsa1425
forcets1474
snippers1593
forfex1712
snipe1819
clipper1876
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) F. 263 Forfices, scerero.
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) F. 279 Forfex, isern, sceruru.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xviii. 138 Ðætte ða sacerdas ne sceoldon no hiera heafdu scieran mid scearseaxum..ac hie sceoldon hie efsian mid scearum.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 399/19 Forficis, sceara.
a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 He sceal..habban..horscamb and sceara.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7094 Whætte his sæxes alse he schæren wolde.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 857 He tok þe sh [e] res of þe nayl And made him a couel of þe sayl.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 722 How Sampson loste his heres, Slepynge, his lemman kitte it with hir sheres.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 318 And out he clippeth also faste Hire tunge with a peire scheres.
1473 in R. Arnold Chron. (c1503) f. xxvijv/1 It is..enacted, that noo wullen cloth..be shorne..but yf it be fully wet opon peine of forfetur of the said cloth... The sherar therof shal lese his shereis and pay xx. s' for euery pece cloth.
1527 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 21 Oon pair of sheris and iiij shepe.
1574 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 246 Grynding of Sheeres to clypp the Assedue.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Nn6 The sheares also were at hand to behead the silke.
1628 P. Fletcher Brittain's Ida i. ii. sig. Bv His Nimph-like face ne're felt the nimble sheeres.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 380 Admitting of formation by the Gardiners sheers.
1786 R. Burns Poems 64 So may they [sc. sheep], like their great forbears, For monie a year come thro' the sheers.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 17 A pair of shears, for clipping box-edging and quickset hedges.
1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 44 For cutting thin sheet metal and wire, a pair of hand-shears.
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