sear
/sɪɹ/ noun C2- Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
Plural sears
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The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it.
I felt a sudden hot sear as if a red-hot iron had been pressed to my thigh.
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