Associations to the word «Shearing»

Wiktionary

SHEARING, adjective. Tending to cut or tear.
SHEARING, verb. Present participle of shear
SHEARING, noun. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
SHEARING, noun. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
SHEARING, noun. Alternative form of shearling.
SHEARING, noun. (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
SHEARING, noun. The act or operation of dividing with shears.
SHEARING, noun. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
SHEARING, noun. (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Dictionary definition

SHEARING, noun. Removing by cutting off or clipping.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope