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Vinony

shearing

noun

  1. manufacturing process, used in metalworking and also with paper and plastics
  2. act of slicing off, as with scissors
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.

  1. Tending to cut or tear.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.

  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 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. 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.
  8. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of shear