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shear-cakes

shear-cakes is the plural of shear-cake.

Meaning of shear-cake

Noun

shear-cake (plural shear-cakes)

  1. A counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.

Questions about shear-cakes

What is shear-cakes the plural of?
Shear-cakes is the plural of shear-cake.

Words near shear-cakes in the dictionary

  1. shear walls
  2. shear wave
  3. shear waves
  4. shear zone
  5. shear-cake
  6. shear-cakes
  7. shear-pole
  8. shear-poles
  9. shear-thickening
  10. shear-thinning
  11. shearability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shear-cakes (page history and authors); shear-cake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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