"alligator shear" meaning in English

See alligator shear in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: alligator shears [plural]
Etymology: alligator + shear, from the shape of its "jaw" being similar in shape to an alligator's. Etymology templates: {{com|en|alligator|shear}} alligator + shear Head templates: {{en-noun}} alligator shear (plural alligator shears)
  1. a metal-cutting shear with a hinged jaw, powered by a flywheel or hydraulic cylinder Wikipedia link: alligator shear Categories (topical): Tools
    Sense id: en-alligator_shear-en-noun-S0CliJkL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for alligator shear meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alligator",
        "3": "shear"
      },
      "expansion": "alligator + shear",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "alligator + shear, from the shape of its \"jaw\" being similar in shape to an alligator's.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alligator shears",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "alligator shear (plural alligator shears)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Tools",
          "orig": "en:Tools",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a metal-cutting shear with a hinged jaw, powered by a flywheel or hydraulic cylinder"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-alligator_shear-en-noun-S0CliJkL",
      "links": [
        [
          "shear",
          "shear"
        ],
        [
          "hinged",
          "hinged"
        ],
        [
          "jaw",
          "jaw"
        ],
        [
          "flywheel",
          "flywheel"
        ],
        [
          "hydraulic",
          "hydraulic"
        ],
        [
          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "alligator shear"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alligator shear"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alligator",
        "3": "shear"
      },
      "expansion": "alligator + shear",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "alligator + shear, from the shape of its \"jaw\" being similar in shape to an alligator's.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alligator shears",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "alligator shear (plural alligator shears)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Tools"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a metal-cutting shear with a hinged jaw, powered by a flywheel or hydraulic cylinder"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "shear",
          "shear"
        ],
        [
          "hinged",
          "hinged"
        ],
        [
          "jaw",
          "jaw"
        ],
        [
          "flywheel",
          "flywheel"
        ],
        [
          "hydraulic",
          "hydraulic"
        ],
        [
          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "alligator shear"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alligator shear"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.