Shears

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Shears may refer to:

Cutting devices

• Scissors, also called shears
• Hair-cutting shears
• Blade shears, typically used for shearing animals
• Grass shears, for lawn trimming
• Kitchen shears, scissors used in the kitchen for food preparation
• Pinking shears, scissors the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight; they leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge
• Pruning shears, for cutting branches and stems
• Snips, for cutting metal
• Trauma shears, scissors used by emergency medical personnel to cut clothing

People

• Albert Shears (born 1900), English footballer
• Augustus Shears (1827–1911), English clergyman
• Curtis Shears (1901–1988), American Olympic fencer
• Ernest Shears (1849–1917), Anglican clergyman in South Africa
• George Shears (1890–1978), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jake Shears (born 1978), lead vocalist for the American music group Scissor Sisters
• Philip James Shears (1887–1972), British Army officer
• Stevie Shears (born c. 1950), musician known for playing in English rock bands Tiger Lily and Ultravox
• Tara Shears (born 1969), English physicist
• Daniel Towers Shears (1784–1860), English coppersmith and inventor
• James Shears (c1750-1820), English coppersmith
• James Henry Shears (1788–1855), English coppersmith and entrepreneur

In fiction

• Sally Shears (also known as Molly Millions), a recurring character in stories and novels written by William Gibson

Other

• Shears (moth), European moth of the family Noctuidae
• Golden Shears, sheep shearing event

See also

• Shear (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Shears
• All pages with titles beginning with Shears 

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