shearing

IPA: ʃˈɪrɪŋ

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.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
(Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
(mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Alternative form of shearling. [A sheep that has been shorn for the first time]

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