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Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

Despond :: Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view..

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Shears :: Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction..

Disheartened :: Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearte.

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.

Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

Daunt :: Daunt (v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain..

Scissor :: Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) The common tern.

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Disheartenment :: Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..

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