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]

Examples of "shearing" in Sentences

People gathered to see sheep shearing.
He is known for shearing sheep prettily.
I have seen a vet shearing fur of animals.
There will be sheep shearing demonstrations.
Whitney suffered what is known as a shearing of the brain.
The new method of alternative shearing is still a few years away [...]
McRae said he and Willis use the New Zealand system of shearing, which is all about the control and handling of the sheep.
He had cut a lock of hair, the edge of his sword shearing through it effortlessly, when he remembered another bit of witch lore.
The new method of alternative shearing is still a few years away but researcher Michelle Hebard says the possibilities are endless.
On one slope we got a good view of the land and the pressure ridges to the S.E. They seem to be disposed 'en échelon' and gave me the idea of shearing cracks.
_ There seems some little confusion in the season of the fourth act -- the feast for the sheep-shearing, which is in the very beginning of summer -- yet Perdita dates the season as "the year growing ancient" --
For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.