Meanings of shear off in английском

And you'd have to shear off the nerves growing out of the brain.

Yet did the spear smite him on the helmet-top and shear off the crest.

When a building sways during an earthquake, exposed columns in partial walls shear off.

Or, after a few seasons, that bolt could shear off.

When the old plants have finished fruiting you can shear off tired and tattered foliage.

With these they can shear off the legs or even the head of another ant in battle.

Horns and chickenheads, like flakes, are solid anchors provided they don't shear off and the sling stays put.

When the airbags engage, tiny bits of metal can shear off at high speed injuring, sometimes fatally, the car's occupants.

I slammed one in the face with my shield and used my sword to shear off the other guy's horsehair plume.

But the fur was long and soft and thick, and we decided to shear off a little to stuff our mattress with.

The flits by themselves were useless as weapons, too small and fragile to ram a larger vessel or to shear off a mast.

People often share incendiary material with the intention of mocking or challenging its assertions -but platforms like Facebook regularly shear off contextualising comments.

Was it an earthquake or had it just sheared off by itself?

The top of the cliff looked as if it had sheared off.

When the truck detonated, it sheared off the U.S. embassy's rear façade.

He found another one; this time the bolt was still inside, sheared off.