adjective. Describing something (such as a shearing force) that tends to cut or tear.

verb. Present participle of shear.

noun. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

noun. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.

noun. Alternative form of shearling..

noun. The act or operation of reaping.

noun. The act or operation of dividing with shears.

noun. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

noun. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

"For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind."

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