verb trans
to cut off the hair, wool, fleece, etc from (somebody, an animal, or a part of the body)
to cut or clip (hair, wool, a fleece, etc) from somebody or something
to cut (something) with or as if with shears
(often + off) to cut or break (something) off something else
to subject (something) to a shear force
to become divided or separated under the action of a shear force
The bolt may shear off
chiefly Scot to reap crops with a sickle
be shorn of
to be deprived of (something); to have (something) taken away from one
She has been shorn of her authority
shearer noun
shearing noun
[Old English scieran]