shearing (root: shear)

• HYPHEN: shear=ing
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

shearing, n. 

•  The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Same as Shearling.  Youatt.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or operation of reaping.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.  [1913 Webster]

Shearing machine. (a) A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. (b) A machine for shearing cloth.