Verb (used with object) : to shear wool from sheep. ,to shear sheep. ,to shear someone of power. ,Chimney swifts sheared the air.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The cruiser sheared through the water.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a sheep of one shear.    From Dictionary.com. 

They are bound to think you are on your own, and their shears are all sharpened for the trimming of newcomers like you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter II] Reference

The cable is raised as high as possible on a pair of wooden "shears," to keep it above the waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

The anchor that held the rope which passed over the "shears" seemed to be pulling out of the sand packed around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference

And I asked him what he put the "shears" in for, and he said he did it to rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician] Reference

Different kinds of shears are attached at the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Visit To Sheep Country] Reference

And three sisters vanish when we raise our shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference

Cuts through the silky hair, shears from the scalp.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

 I cut my hair with pinking shears like Johnny Rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life In Pools] Reference

I knew what I had to do to feel better and bought the shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eddie Says] Reference

The sticks are then chopped in the desired length by heavy shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

The best form of dehorning shears have a wide V in the cutting edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The pasteboard formerly was cut by hand shears, one piece at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

And shears with soft grips can help ward off repetitive-stress problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip Sheet] Reference

But frankly, so do top hats, giant shears and mud plugs made of golf balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helping The Pros: Amateur Ideas To Stop The Oil Spill] Reference

Later, he said, he finished off the injured boy with a pair of garden shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case Against Winnie] Reference

Rather than buying a hammer or some garden shears, they were selling something.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Republicans Draft Campaign Manifesto] Reference

You see how his mustache needs trimming, how her fingers are fast with the shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haircut] Reference

The pinking shears bit into the wool, leaving tiny ant-like shavings on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relics] Reference

Clean your shears with bleach, and oil them lightly before using them on any other plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [As season changes, gardeners get ready] Reference

Eyebrows are raised and you could cut the disdain in the air with a pair of pinking shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway"] Reference

The sheep shears, which anyone can understand, represent less to the farmer than do the sheep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference

When I stopped talking the noise of the shears became distinct over the noise of traffic passing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grief Counselor] Reference

As soon as she could get away, Theresa flew to the backyard shed with her mother's pinking shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relics] Reference

We have used common long-handled spades, cut down with shears at a machine-shop, into these shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

This finally made clear, I sat in the chair and the barber went to work on me with his sharp shears.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference

In 1951, you know, they would operate on people with, you know, with pinking shears and screwdrivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Mellencamp: A New Recording, An Old Sound] Reference

In using shears, is it better to place the object you wish to cut near the handles or near the points?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

They followed one suspect to a Fleet Farm in Green Bay, where he purchased six pairs of pruning shears.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Marijuana Megafarm' Hidden In Wisconsin National Forest] Reference

The machine-shearing saves much wool, as it gets closer to the skin of the sheep and shears more evenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

There are also other methods of removing overhanging leaves, one by using hand shears, another by filing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

The only silence I have ever known was the slack moment when my shears nicked clean and left my treasure in my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eddie Says] Reference

 The boys would fetch tools that he'd leave scattered on the ground; cutting shears of various sizes and fishing wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Animals] Reference

Pinking shears: What this has meant is that both Wintour and Tilberis have taken their pinking shears to morale around Elle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle Of The Rag Mags] Reference

It is preferable to dehorning shears, as there is danger of fracturing the frontal bone when removing the horns of mature cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

With a strong pair of scissors, -- or rather shears, cut through the scapular arch (the large bone beneath the gills -- see Fig. 34, A).    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

 He wielded the pruning shears with stubby fingers, snip-snip-snip, in the branches of boxwoods and privets that he sculpted into animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Animals] Reference