1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping. 2. To remove the hair or fleece from. 3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge. 4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were …

: an action or stress resulting from applied forces that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. Verb The …

SHEARING definition: 1. the activity of cutting the wool off a sheep: 2. the process of cutting the hair on a person's…. Learn more.

Jan 29, 2026 · shearing (countable and uncountable, plural shearings) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

4 days ago · /ˈʃɪərɪŋ/ IPA guide Other forms: shearings Definitions of shearing noun removing by cutting off or clipping see more

Shearing refers primarily to the act of cutting off the wool, hair, or other fibers from an animal, especially sheep. It can also mean cutting or trimming something with scissors or a similar implement.

One careful handful at a time, he began cutting off his hair, shearing it off as close to his scalp as he could.

Shearing, in physics and engineering, refers to the deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It involves the forceful rearrangement of the …

Animal Husbandry to remove (hair, wool, etc.) from (an animal) by or as if by cutting:[~ + object] to shear wool from sheep. [~ + object] to break (a wing of a plane) by great pressure from force parallel …

sheared, sheared, shorn, shearing to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. to progress by or as if by cutting. The cruiser sheared through the water. Mechanics, Geology. to become …