Available Definitions:
1) - imp. of Shear.
2) n. - A sewer.
3) n. - A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
4) v. t. - To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
5) v. t. - The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
6) v. t. - To set on shore.
7) v. t. - A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
8) v. t. - An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
9) 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.
10) v. i. - To deviate. See Sheer .
11) v. i. - To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.