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shearing Shear·ing

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IPA: /ˈʃɪər ɪŋ/

Shearing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 433 anagrams from letters in shearing (aeghinrs).

Definitions for shearing

noun

1. (Sir) George Albert, 1919–2011, English jazz pianist and composer.
2. Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors.
3. the act or process of shearing or being sheared.
4. a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep):
5. the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.
6. one blade of a pair of large scissors.
7. Usually, shears. (usually used with a plural verb). Also, sheers. Also called shear legs, sheerlegs. a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.
8. a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it.
9. Mechanics, Geology. the tendency of forces to deform or fracture a member or a rock in a direction parallel to the force, as by sliding one section against another.
10. Physics. the lateral deformation produced in a body by an external force, expressed as the ratio of the lateral displacement between two points lying in parallel planes to the vertical distance between the planes.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut (something).
2. to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument:
3. to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from:
4. to strip or deprive (usually followed by of):
5. Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle.
6. to travel through by or as if by cutting:

verb (used without object)

1. to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument.
2. to progress by or as if by cutting:
3. Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane.
4. Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle.

Origin of shearing

before 900; (v.) Middle English sheren, Old English sceran, cognate with Dutch, German scheren, Old Norse skera; (noun) (in sense “tool for shearing”) Middle English sheres (plural), continui

Examples for shearing

But they were so changed, by Shearing, that he couldn't tell who was who.

Then in the spring when the Shearing, dipping, and all is done, we start for the range.

Hogs and Tegs: the first Shearing of sheep that have not been shorn as lambs.

When the price is low and the market dull at the time of Shearing, there should not be too much haste in making sales.

Electoral losses have only driven the party further rightward, Shearing it of its Northeastern wing.

On the morrow the hair was caked so fast about his neck that it could only be freed by Shearing it.

Would you like to go East with Donald and me when we return to Boston after the Shearing?

Shall we dip the lambs as we did last spring, after Shearing the sheep?

I will stay here until after the Shearing, for it is a busy time and I might be of help.

And Farmer Green paid me the honor of Shearing me himself, the first of all.