shearing
/ˈʃɪrɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of shear; cutting or clipping something, especially wool or hair.
- She is shearing the sheep in the barn right now.
- He was shearing the thick wool from the ram.
- The gardener is shearing the hedge into a neat shape.
noun
- The act of cutting off wool from a sheep or other animal.
- She watched the shearing of the alpacas at the county fair.
- The farmer hired extra workers for the shearing season.
- Shearing usually happens once a year in the spring.
- A type of force that causes layers of a material to slide past each other, often used in engineering and geology.
- Earthquakes create shearing stress along fault lines.
- Engineers tested the metal for its ability to handle shearing.
- The bridge was designed to resist shearing forces from strong winds.