Shears
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Shears may mean:
- trauma shearsTrauma shearsTrauma shears, also known as tuff cuts, are a type of scissors used by paramedics and other emergency medical personnel to quickly and safely cut clothing from injured people...
, scissors used by emergency medical personnel to quickly and safely cut clothing - kitchen shears, a kind of scissors
- pinking shearsPinking shearsPinking shears are scissors, the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight. They leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge.Pinking shears have a utilitarian function for cutting woven cloth. Cloth edges that are unfinished will easily fray, the weave becoming undone and threads...
, a kind of scissors - blade shears, typically used for shearing animals
- pruning shearsPruning shearsPruning shears, also called hand pruners , or secateurs are a type of scissors for use with plants. They are strong enough to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres thick...
, used for cutting branches and stems - Daniel Towers ShearsJames Shears and SonsJames Shears and Sons was a firm of London coppersmiths and braziers who were active from c1785 to 1891. The firm was founded by James Shears and continued by his two sons Daniel Towers Shears and James Henry Shears and subsequently by William Shears.-The origins of the company:James Shears was...
(1784-1860), English coppersmith and inventor - James ShearsJames Shears and SonsJames Shears and Sons was a firm of London coppersmiths and braziers who were active from c1785 to 1891. The firm was founded by James Shears and continued by his two sons Daniel Towers Shears and James Henry Shears and subsequently by William Shears.-The origins of the company:James Shears was...
(c1750-1820), English coppersmith - James Henry ShearsJames Shears and SonsJames Shears and Sons was a firm of London coppersmiths and braziers who were active from c1785 to 1891. The firm was founded by James Shears and continued by his two sons Daniel Towers Shears and James Henry Shears and subsequently by William Shears.-The origins of the company:James Shears was...
(1788-1855), English coppersmith and entrepreneur