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▸ 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 material cut off in this way.
▸ noun: Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
▸ noun: (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
▸ noun: The act or operation of dividing with shears.
▸ noun: The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
▸ noun: (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
▸ noun: Alternative form of shearling. [A sheep that has been shorn for the first time]
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fleece,
cutting,
shredded,
slittered,
slash and burn,
trenching,
slit,
sheaved,
swathy,
sawed-off,
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