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

1. present participle. of Shear
2. noun. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Same as Shearling.
5. noun. The act or operation of reaping.
6. noun. The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
7. noun. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
8. noun. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
9. noun. removing by cutting off or clipping

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shearing:

hearings, hearsing

Common word forms

shear, shearings

Words from these letters

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