shearing

adj

1. (not-comparable)Tending to cut or tear.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of shear

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2. (countable, uncountable)The material cut off in this way.

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

3. (countable, uncountable)Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)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 .”

5. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)The act or operation of reaping.
6. (countable, uncountable)The act or operation of dividing with shears.

   “the shearing of metal plates”

7. (countable, uncountable)The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
8. (countable, uncountable)The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.