shearing

Tending to cut or tear.

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.

Alternative form of shearling.

When male sheep have been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .

The act or operation of reaping.