shearing

sustantivo C2

The act or operation of removing the fleece from a sheep, llama etc. with shears or a shearing machine (countable, uncountable)
The removal of nap from cloth. (countable, uncountable)
The material cut off in this way. (countable, uncountable) · the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. (countable, uncountable)
The act or operation of dividing with shears. (countable, uncountable) · the shearing of metal plates
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. (countable, uncountable)
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. (countable, uncountable)

Plural shearings

De la biblioteca

At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 32 · B2

Otras coincidencias

shearing Tending to cut or tear. C2

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