shearing

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shearing

n. act of cutting off hair or fleece; act of trimming with a sharp tool

shear

v. cut off hair or fleece; trim with a sharp tool; deprive of, take away

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Sheep shearing

Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or "sheared", depending upon dialect). The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.

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shearing

Noun
1. removing by cutting off or clipping
(hypernym) cut, cutting, cutting off
(hyponym) sheepshearing
(derivation) fleece, shear

shear

Noun
1. (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
(hypernym) deformation
(classification) physics, physical science, natural philosophy
2. (usually plural) large scissors with strong blades
(synonym) shears
(hypernym) scissors, pair of scissors
(hyponym) clipper, clippers
(derivation) fleece
3. a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
(hypernym) edge tool

Verb
1. cut with shears; "shear hedges"
(hypernym) snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
(derivation) shears
2. shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
(synonym) fleece
(hypernym) shave, trim
(derivation) shears
3. cut or cut through with shears
(hypernym) cut

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shear

v. stříhat ovčí vlnu

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