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A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
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of Shearman
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A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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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.
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The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
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One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
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The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
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Act of shearing sheep.
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A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
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The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
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A sheep but once sheared.
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
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An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
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The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
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One who shears.
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A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
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Same as Shearling.
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Anything in the form of shears.
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One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
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A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
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