Category:Shearing

Shear"ing, n.

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 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.

3. Same as shearling. Youatt.

4. The act or operation of reaping. [scot.]

5. The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of Metal plates.

6. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

7. (mining)

Defn: 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.