shearing means tending to cut or tear.
Etymology
From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
adj
- Tending to cut or tear.
noun
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- The material cut off in this way.“the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth”
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The act or operation of reaping.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.“the shearing of metal plates”
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.