A kind of scissors with a bent blade, used by paramedics etc. to cut clothing quickly and safely from injured people.

plural of wind shear

(UK) A type of shears used in hairstyling. One edge is serrated, like a hair comb.

Synonym of throatless shear

(architecture) Alternative form of shearwall

Alternative form of shearline

(sewing) A pair of scissors with zigzag cutting edges, used to cut fabric: the zigzag edge helps keep the fabric from fraying.

(meteorology, weather, aviation) A change of wind speed, direction, and magnitude over a short spatial distance.

(physics) the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.

A building in which sheep are sheared.