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Shearing   /ʃˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
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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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"Shearing" Quotes from Famous Books



... kept two cows and some sheep, which supplied the family with all their milk and butter, nearly all their meat, and most of their clothes. He also rented two or three acres of land, upon which he raised various crops. In sheep-shearing time, he turned out and helped his neighbors shear their sheep, a kind of work in which he had eminent skill. As compensation, each farmer thus assisted gave him a fleece. In haying time, too, he and his boys were in the fields lending a hand, and got ...
— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton
... shearing sheep, and could give no time to company; and when late in the day I drew rein at Janet's, and she said she was going to have a dance, and could not look after sick folk, the pallid lips failed to return my despairing embrace; and in the ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... to his Sheep-shearing, and placed a Whore (Tamar) in his Way, in the Posture of Temptation, so made him commit Incest ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe
... his country. That such a one should become a Praetor and a Governor was natural. He went to Africa with proconsular authority, and of course fleeced the Africans. It was as natural as that a flock of sheep should lose their wool at shearing time. He came back intent, as was natural also, on being a Consul, and of carrying on the game of promotion and of plunder. But there came a spoke in his wheel—the not unusual spoke of an accusation from the province. While under accusation for provincial robbery he could ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... water. The king received reports from the chief shepherds and herdsmen, and it was the duty of the governors of the chief cities and districts of Babylonia to make tours of inspection and see that due care was taken of the royal flocks and sheep. The sheep-shearing for all the flocks that were pastured near the capital took place in Babylon, and the king used to send out summonses to his chief shepherds to inform them of the day when the shearing would take place; and it is probable that the governors of the other great cities sent ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall


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