Shearing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Shearing is an adjective meaning Tending to cut or tear.
Meaning
Tending to cut or tear.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of shear
- 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.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- Alternative form of shearling.
Example Sentences
the shearing of metal plates
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 .
Word Forms
- shearings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fleece, haircut, mowing, cutting, cup, cut.
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