Shearing

Full definition of shearing

Adjective

1. Tending to cut or tear.

Verb

1. Present participle of shear

Anagrams

• hearings
• hearsing

Noun

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.the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
3. Alternative form of shearling.
4. (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
5. The act or operation of dividing with shears.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.