English-Estonian translations for shearing

Definition of shearing

• Tending to cut or tear
• The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth
• Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions
• The act or operation of reaping
• The process of preparing shear steel; tilting

Examples

• the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
• the shearing of metal plates

Related words

• shearing shed
• shearing force
• shearing blade
• sheep shearing