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verb

Shear v. t. (past sheared or shore;past part. sheared or shorn; pres. part. shearing)

1.

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.

2.

To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. "Before the golden tresses... were shorn away."

3.

To reap, as grain. (Scot.)

4.

Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

5.

(Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Shear v. i.

1.

To deviate. See Sheer.

2.

(Engin.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

noun

Shearing n.

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 product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.

3.

Same as Shearling.

4.

The act or operation of reaping. (Scot.)

5.

The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.

6.

The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

7.

(Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Shearing machine.

(a)

A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal.

(b)

A machine for shearing cloth.

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Etymology of 'Shearing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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