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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shear \Shear\, v. t. [imp. {Sheared}or {Shore};p. p. {Sheared}
or {Shorn}; p. pr & vb n. {Shearing}.] [OE. sheren,
scheren to shear, cut, shave, AS sceran, scieran scyran
akin to D. & G. scheren Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr ???.
Cf {Jeer}, {Score}, {Shard}, {Share}, {Sheer} to turn
aside.]
1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like
instrument; as to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off to clip something from a surface; as to
shear a fleece.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away
--Shak.
3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
{Shear}, n., 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shearing \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
shearing
n : removing by cutting off or clipping
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