Reverse Dictionary: TEAR

NOUNS
1623 — LANIATION a tearing like a butcher → obs.
1785 — SCREED a tear, a rent; a gap; the sound made by tearing or rending → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1816 — BRACK a tear or flaw, usually in fabric → Amer. dial.
1839 — SKEG a tear in a piece of cloth, such as would be made by a stump of a branch → Eng. dial.
1848 — WINKLE-HAWK a tear in the shape of the letter L in a cloth; a rip or cut → Amer. dial.
1865 — BARN DOOR a triangular tear in a piece of cloth → Amer. dial.
1870 — CAG → KAG an angular tear or rent in cloth → Eng. dial.
1890 — TRAP-DOOR a triangular tear in cloth → Amer. dial.
1890 — TRAP-HATCH a triangular tear in cloth → Amer. dial.
1892 — SCRIT a tear, a rent; a scratch → Sc.
1892 — TARTLES fringe-like projections from an old torn garment → Sc.
1896 — TRAPPATCH a tear in clothes → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GRUDGLINGS – dregs of coffee, tea, etc.; sediment left in the bottom of a cup → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — HATCH a tear in a garment caused by catching it on some projecting object → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REAM a tear, a rent → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REEF a tear, a rent → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1904 — SCREEDING a tearing, a rending; a scolding match among women, when violence may go to the length of tearing or ‘screeding’ the cap → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RANT a tear, a rent → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — WAIME a tear, a flaw → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1946 — WEEPS tears → US sl.
1947 — WATERWORKS tears → UK sl.
1951 — NAGELHAWK a tear or rip in a piece of clothing → Amer. dial.
1966 — EAGLE-HAWK an L-shaped tear in cloth → Amer. dial.
1967 — EAGLE-HAWK a three-cornered tear in a piece of clothing; a rip, a cut → Amer. dial.
1967 — JAG a three-cornered tear in a piece of clothing from catching it on something sharp → Amer. dial.
1968 — CALF TAIL a three-cornered tear in a piece of clothing from catching it on something sharp → Amer. dial.
1968 — FLITCHET a tear in a piece of clothing → Amer. dial
1968 — NUMBER SEVEN → SEVEN a three-cornered tear in a piece of clothing from catching it on something sharp → Amer. dial.

VERBS
..890 — TO-LOUK → TO-LUKE to tear or pull to pieces; to pull apart, to wrench asunder → obs.
1200 — TO-BREAK to tear clothes or the like → obs.
1205 — TO-DRAW to tear to pieces; to pull apart, to draw or drag asunder; to destroy by tearing apart → obs.
1250 — TO-TOSE to tear to pieces → obs.
1300 — HALE to tear or pull asunder or in pieces; to cause to shrink → obs.
1374 — TIRE to tear, to tear at, to pluck → obs.
1375 — RACE to tear, to go in pieces  
1400 — RASE to tear or scratch with something sharp; to cut, to slit, to slash, esp. the skin or clothing → obs.
1430 — RANCH to tear, to cut, to scratch → obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
1440 — RACE to tear or scratch with something sharp; to cut or slash → obs. exc. techn.
1440 — RAG to tear in pieces; to make ragged, to tear in a ragged manner → obs.
1475 — RAISE to tear; to scratch; to cut → obs.
1520 — MAMMOCK → MOMMOCK → MUMMOCK to tear, break, or cut into fragments; to shred → Eng. dial.
1531 — DECERP to tear apart; to pluck off or out → obs.
1549 — RACK to tear or pull apart; to separate by force; to break up → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1567 — RAMP to tear, to snatch, to pluck; to pull suddenly or sharply → obs.
1568 — JAG to make ragged or uneven by tearing or cutting
1582 — BEREND to tear or rend badly
1598 — BESCRAMBLE to tear, to scratch → obs.
1603 — LANCINATE to tear, to pierce  
1604 — DILACERATE to tear something or someone apart
1611 — SHARK to tear, to cut → obs.
1633 — HARROW to tear, to lacerate, to wound physically
1638 — CONVEL → CONVELL to tear or mangle → obs.
1721 — LANIATE to tear in pieces; to lacerate  
1768 — SCALE → SKAIL to tear, to rip a seam → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1777 — RAUNCH to tear up; to munch, to gnaw → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1780 — FRITTER to tear or break into pieces or fragments 
1781 — RATCH to tear in pieces
1790 — RETCH to tear; to pull asunder; to wrest → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — RATCHET to tear, to rend → Eng. dial.
1804 — TEAR TO MAMMOCKS to tear in pieces → Eng. dial.
1809 — REEVE to tear, to break; to split wood → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1817 — SCREED to tear, to rend → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1832 — SPRET to tear, split, or burst, as a seam, etc.; to unravel → Sc.
1865 — SCRIEVE → SCRIVE to tear, to drag aside → Sc. & Ireland
1867 — MOMOX to tear into pieces; to mangle; to beat severely, to maul → Amer. dial.
1872 — RANT to tear, to rent, to pull → Eng. dial.
1877 — TARTLE to tear, to rend, to tatter → Sc. & Ireland
1889 — RAVE to tear up; to pull; to rout out, to disturb → Eng. dial.
1890 — SKEG to tear jaggedly or as with a snag → Eng. dial.
1892 — SCRAM → SCRAMB to tear off, to pull down violently; to maul about → Eng. dial.
1892 — SCRIT to tear, to rend; to scratch → Sc.
1892 — TEASE to tear, to handle roughly; to toss about → Sc.
1902 — CAG → KAG to tear, to rip; to make an angular tear in cloth; to cut unevenly → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — HATCH to tear a thing by catching it on something → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — REAM to tear, to split open → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCREEDGE to tear → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 — RAGGET to tear into rags; to beat about → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAP AND REND to tear and snatch; to waste, destroy property → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TARYLUG to tear and pull about → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1936 — SALIVATE to tear apart, to mangle → Amer. dial.
1958 — LAB to tear or rip skin or cloth so as to leave a shred or strip hanging loose → Sc.
1972 — TAAVE to tear, to rend → Sc.