Shear"ing, n. 1.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing
machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
2. 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. Same as Shearling.
Youatt.
4. The act or operation of reaping.
[Scot.]
5. The act or operation of dividing with
shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
6. The process of preparing shear steel;
tilting.
7. (Mining) The process of making a
vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Shearing machine. (a) A
machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of
metal. (b) A machine for shearing
cloth.