How do you spell Shearing
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1) n. - The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2) n. - 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) n. - Same as Shearling .
4) n. - The act or operation of reaping.
5) n. - The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
6) n. - The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
7) n. - The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
8) v. t. - An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
9) v. t. - A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
10) v. i. - To deviate. See Sheer .
11) v. i. - To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
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