Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. cutting equipment
8. cutting tools

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Tools and Equipment
5. equipment
6. equipment by context
7. culinary equipment
8. cutlery

Narrower term/s

• metalworking shears [NP][+]
  • bench shears
  • circle shears
  • lever shears
  • sheet shears (metalworking shears)
  • tin snips
  • bolt clippers (shears)
• lever shears [NP]
• pinking shears [NP]
• hedge shears [NP]
• pruning shears [NP]
• grape shears [NP]
• sugar cutters [NP]
• poultry shears [NP]
• sheep shears [NP]
• sewing shears [NP]
• animal shears [NP]
• band cutter shears [NP]
• basketmaker's shears [NP]
• dressmaker's shears [NP]
• dental shears [NP]
• glass shears [NP]
• fabric shears [NP][+]
  • pinking shears
  • dressmaker's shears
  • fuller's shears
• fetlock shears [NP]
• fishing shears [NP]
• fuller's shears [NP]
• horse shears [NP]
• grass shears [NP]
• medical shears [NP]
• leather shears [NP]
• rib shears [NP]
• portfire shears [NP]
• squaring shears [NP]
• thinning shears [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

Hand operated cutting implements resembling scissors but of larger size, or any other cutting instruments that similarly operate by the simultaneous action of two blades on opposite sides of the material to be cut. The term may also be used for various machines used for cutting that are more or less analogous to shears in manner of operation.