shearing
nounEtymology From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
8 senses
- 1The act or operation of clipping with shears or a…
- 2The material cut off in this way.
- 3Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- 4Alternative form of shearling.
- 5The act or operation of reaping.
- 6The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- 7The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- 8The process of making a vertical side cutting in working…
1
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2
The material cut off in this way.
- the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
3
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
4
Alternative Alternative form of shearling.
- 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 .1864, William Youatt, The Complete Grazier and Farmer's and Cattle-Breeder's:
5
Scotland The act or operation of reaping.
6
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- the shearing of metal plates
7
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- Derived terms
- hydroshearing, nonshearing, shearing shed, sheepshearing, woolshearing