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shearing

[ UK /ʃˈi‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. removing by cutting off or clipping

How To Use shearing In A Sentence

  • Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne, shearing and crutching.
  • I just want to make sure that I'm not mishearing you, or maybe you misspoke.
  • These gap sizes were reduced, but not eliminated, by shearing the linear cosmid into smaller fragments. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • She said the black-faced sheep of the moors will need shearing later this month and farmers face a logistical nightmare of how to shear and dip their livestock if they cannot move them off the moors.
  • So much humor depends upon homonyms and creative mishearing.
  • They use electric shears for sheep shearing.
  • Its application situation on heat shearing blade, guide plate and nodular indefinite chill roll are introduced too.
  • -- So Paul being to return home after his long absence, I spent the forenoon on the fell shearing, and earned a stone of wool and a windle of rye. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
  • His great sword clanged down, the edge shearing sparks against the granite stair. Shadowfane
  • Farmworkers' wives and other family members often supplement the household income by making wreaths and garlands from the clippings removed in the shearing process.
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