English Explanatory Dictionary

beshear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

beshear beshears beshearing beshore besheared beshorn

Etymology

From Middle English bischeren, from Old English besċieran, besċeran (“to shear, shave, cut hair, give the tonsure”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskeran (“to cut off”), equivalent to be- (“around, off, away”) + shear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian beskere, West Frisian beskeare, Dutch bescheren, German Low German bescheren, German bescheren.

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