Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act or operation of removing the fleece from a sheep, llama etc. with shears or a shearing machine

  2. (countable, uncountable)The removal of nap from cloth.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The material cut off in this way.

    the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth

  4. (countable, uncountable)Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.

  5. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)The act or operation of reaping.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The act or operation of dividing with shears.

    the shearing of metal plates

    стрижкаstrižka

    стри́жкаstrýžka

  7. (countable, uncountable)The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

More definitions
  • removing by cutting off or clipping

Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of clipping fur/hair with shears:
Русский
By meaning 1
act of clipping fur/hair with shears:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: shearings
Singularshearing
Pluralshearings

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shearing — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto