shear

Shear the wool from.

“shear sheep”

Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.

Cut or cut through with shears.

“shear the wool off the lamb”

Cut with shears.

“shear hedges”

A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.

(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.

“the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram”