Shearing

Definitions

1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
   countable, uncountable
2. The material cut off in this way.
   countable, uncountable
3. Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
   countable, uncountable
4. The act or operation of reaping.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable
5. The act or operation of dividing with shears.
   countable, uncountable
6. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
   countable, uncountable
7. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth”

“When male sheep have⟳ been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .”

“the shearing of metal plates”

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