1. A cutting implement having two crossed pivoting blades; SYN. pair of scissors.
2. A wrestling hold in which one wraps one's legs around the opponent's body and put one's feet together and squeeze.

ETYM as. sceara. Related to Shear.
(Homonym: sheer).
1. A machine that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.
2. (Physics) A deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.