1. To attach with a clip.
2. To terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; SYN. curtail, cut short.

(Homonym: sheer).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: sheared; or p.p.: shorn).
1. To cut or cut through with shears.
2. To cut with shears, as of hedges.

(Homonym: shear).
To cause to sheer.