Word Direct Answers

What does "shearing" mean?

Shearing: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Same as Shearling. Youatt.
  2. 3.The act or operation of reaping. [Scot.]
  3. 4.The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
  4. 5.The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  5. 6.(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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