Dictionary Entry
shearing
shearing is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Shear. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Shear
- 2noun
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Same as Shearling.
- 5noun
The act or operation of reaping.
- 6noun
The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
- 7noun
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- 8noun
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- 9noun
removing by cutting off or clipping
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