shearing

Meanings

1. Tending to cut or tear.

1. present participle and gerund of shear

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 material cut off in this way.
3. Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
4. Alternative form of shearling.
5. The act or operation of reaping.
6. The act or operation of dividing with shears.
7. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
8. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Etymology

From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.