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shearing
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As an adjective, shearing means tending to cut or tear. As a noun, it means the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
Meanings of shearing
9 meaningsadjective
Tending to cut or tear.
verb
Present participle of shear
noun
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
“the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth”
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
ScotlandThe act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
“the shearing of metal plates”
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
miningThe process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Removing by cutting off or clipping
Alternative form of shearling.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).