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- adjective Describing something (such as a shearing force) that tends to cut or tear.
- verb Present participle of
shear . - noun The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- noun The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
- noun Alternative form of
shearling .. - noun Scotland The act or operation of
reaping . - noun The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- noun The process of preparing shear steel;
tilting . - noun mining The process of making a
vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
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Examples
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For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.
The Silence 2010
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For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.
The Silence 2010
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For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.
The Silence 2010
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Whitney suffered what is known as a shearing of the brain.
Mistaken Identity Don 2008
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The new method of alternative shearing is still a few years away but researcher Michelle Hebard says the possibilities are endless.
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The new method of alternative shearing is still a few years away [...]
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He had cut a lock of hair, the edge of his sword shearing through it effortlessly, when he remembered another bit of witch lore.
Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995
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On one slope we got a good view of the land and the pressure ridges to the S.E. They seem to be disposed 'en échelon' and gave me the idea of shearing cracks.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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_ There seems some little confusion in the season of the fourth act -- the feast for the sheep-shearing, which is in the very beginning of summer -- yet Perdita dates the season as "the year growing ancient" --
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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McRae said he and Willis use the New Zealand system of shearing, which is all about the control and handling of the sheep.
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