Joewell Shear

shear
cut with shears; "shear hedges"
fleece: shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
A strain in the structure of a substance produced by pressure, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"