Word Finder - shearing

verb

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To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.

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To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.

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To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.

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To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.

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To make a vertical cut in the coal.

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To reap, as grain.

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To deprive of property; to fleece.

noun

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The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

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The material cut off in this way.

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the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth

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Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.

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The act or operation of reaping.

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The act or operation of dividing with shears.

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the shearing of metal plates

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The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

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

adjective

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Tending to cut or tear.

noun

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A sheep that has been shorn for the first time

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A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth

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Her coat was lined with shearling.

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