shears

/ ʃɪəz /

plural noun

1. 1. large scissors, as for cutting cloth, jointing poultry, etc
   2. a large scissor-like and usually hand-held cutting tool with flat blades, as for cutting hedges
2. any of various analogous cutting or clipping implements or machines
3. See sheerlegs
   short for sheerlegs
4. off the shears informal.
   off the shears (of a sheep) newly shorn

Example Sentences

Meet the latest faces of Saint Laurent menswear: Wyatt and Fletcher Shears.

From The Daily Beast

Good kitchen shears make light work out of everything from opening packages to taking the back out of a chicken.

From The Daily Beast

A good pair of shears should be heavy and sharp; this pair, which I use, is both.

From The Daily Beast

And no, he did not come to clients' homes himself with a pair of shears to do the snipping to their personal specifications.

From The Daily Beast

Rather, she is hacking it off with a pair of kitchen shears.

From The Daily Beast

The objects in the engraving are probably the shears, comb, ladle, and an unknown instrument used for cleansing wool.

From Project Gutenberg

I have always thought of the shears by its Gaelic name, but it is past my power to spell it.

From Project Gutenberg

If you take a pair of shears, close and open them and then try to pronounce the sound you hear, you will have the Gaelic name.

From Project Gutenberg

Swiftly but carefully the shears went snipping along her back and down the sides.

From Project Gutenberg

It was doubtless a great improvement on the old shears—the kind that memory associates with boyish haircuts.

From Project Gutenberg