shearing

Meanings

Adjective

• Tending to cut or tear.

Verb

• Present participle of shear

Noun

• The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
• The material cut off in this way.
• Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
• Alternative of shearling.
• The act or operation of reaping.
• The act or operation of dividing with shears.
• The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
• The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Origin

• From Middle English scheryng; equivalent to shear + -ing.