To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
Dryden
short of the wool, and naked from the shear
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
Youatt
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; (..) at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
puhekieltäforces that push in opposite directions.