shearingn.

Brit.

/ˈʃɪərɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈʃɪ(ə)rɪŋ/

Etymology: < shear v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action or an act of cutting, clipping, or shaving with shears or some other sharp instrument.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument)

shearingc1315

paring1319

concision1382

shaving1390

thwiting1393

forcingc1440

trousing1512

trimmingc1525

circumcision1581

snipping1583

clipping1589

snip-snap1597

trim1608

whittling1614

collinga1628

shripping1635

snippery1639

undercuttinga1652

exscindinga1677

nipping1693

snip-snapping1906

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving

dodding?c1225

shearingc1315

shaving138.

tonsure1390

pollinga1400

clippingc1440

rasure1483

barbing1485

trimmingc1525

colling1575

tonsuring1811

detonsure1819

pogonotomy1896

poodling1907

razor cutting1952

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing

shearingc1315

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun]

shearing?1523

sheep-shearing1607

sheep-shear1616

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing

reapingc1350

mowinga1425

shearing1779

grass seeding1882

mow1975

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes

limation1617

matting1688

sheeting1776

blooming1812

steeling1816

ungraining1839

tarnishing1858

ironing1868

shimming1872

beating1875

siliconizing1880

shearing1881

inoxidizing1883

rustproofing1892

picking1895

rifting1903

Bayer process1910

autofrettage1919

prefinishing1935

panel beating1953

splatting1976

c1315 Shoreham i. 1416 Þat hys in holy cherche y-cleped wel Þe furste scherynge Of clerke.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2624 Sharpe schudering of schote, schering [Dubl. MS. sheryng] of mailes.

1490 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 138 Item, for the schereing of xxxiij elne j quartar of clayth.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiii^v Beware that y^u put nat to many shepe in a penne at one time..at the shering.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 77 Grace, and Remembrance be to you both, And welcome to our Shearing .

1709 A. Pope Summer in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 735 When Swains from Sheering seek their nightly Bow'rs.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cloth The Sheerman takes it, and gives it its first cut, or sheering.

1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 92 The Cutting of Wheat is termed Shearing.

1848 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. (1896) 136/2 Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl..who can sing at a husking or romp at shearing.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shearing,..cutting up steel for the crucible.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 122 With spring came all the bustle of washing and shearing.

1891 W. Morris Poems by Way (1896) 191 It was Goldilocks woke up in the morn At the first of the shearing of the corn.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xvi. 136 I was looking forward to the shearing.

†2. Cleavage, parting, division. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun]

forkinga1400

shearingc1400

divarication1578

bifurcation1646

divergence1656

divergency1738

divergement1766

trifurcation1884

c1400 Sc. Trojan War i. 502 This hede and taill ar for to say A myddle scheryng in þe way Of a cercle þat turnys in hevene.

3. Something which is cut off with shears or some other sharp implement. Now only plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off

cutting1382

culponc1400

clipping1461

chop?1463

shearing1536

sharing?1553

chopping1558

snip1558

share1590

snipping1611

offcut1663

snippet1664

kerf1678

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off > that which is cut off

shearing1536

offcut1663

1536 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 56 To..my shepherde fyve sheipe sheringes.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 90 A pounde of the shearinge of Scarlet.

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 287 It was like the sheering of the Hogs, all Bristles.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶10 He would..have presented her, once in three Years, with the Sheering of his Sheep to keep her in Under-Petticoats.

1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 61 Put the Shearings of Scarlet Cloath upon the Coals.

1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica vi. 55 A certain quantity of the shearings of fine woollen cloth.

4. dialect. A designation for a sheep after the first shearing, a shearling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > one year old or sheared once

shearling1378

hoggaster1388

hogget1421

shear-sheep1503

shear-hog?1523

hoggerel1530

shear wether hog1537

teg1537

hog sheep1552

lamb-hog1607

shearinga1642

two-teeth1776

hogling1856

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 4 After they are once shorne, they are called gimmer shearings.

1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) 95 Shearing, a sheep a year old, or once shorn.

1786 G. Culley Observ. Live Stock (1807) Introd. p. xviii Then they take the name of shearing, shearling, shear-hog.

5. Mining. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > types of cutting > specifically in coal-mine

kirving1827

shearing1875

wall-cutting1886

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shearing,..the making of vertical cuts at the ends of a portion of an undercut seam of coal.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shearing. 1. The vertical side-cutting which, together with holing or horizontal undercutting, constitutes the attack upon a face of coal.

6. Physics, etc. See shear v. 9.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet

shear1850

shearing1850

shearing strain1850

1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges I. 389 Under these circumstances failure takes place solely from the vertical shearing of the material in a transverse direction.

1858 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Appl. Mech. §279. 299 The resistance of timber to shearing is in each case that which acts between contiguous layers of fibres.

1869 Lond. etc. Philos. Jrnl. 38 71 On the Fracture of Brittle and Viscous Solids by ‘Shearing’. By Sir William Thomson, F.R.S.

1876 F. Jenkin Bridges §3 in Encycl. Brit. IV. 285/2 There are three kinds of stress, due to tension, compression, and shearing.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (1903) iii. i. iv. §4. 428 The planes of sedimentation, or those of cleavage or shearing where these have been developed, being naturally those along which water passes most easily.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

shearing-day n.

ΚΠ

1860 Indenture 30 July Shearing days fines or shearing rents and other dues.

shearing-feast n.

ΚΠ

1595 E. Spenser Astrophel in Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. F1 Emongst the shepheards in their shearing feast.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. vi. 165 Thou shalt have a necklace of jet at next shearing-feast.

shearing-rent n.

ΚΠ

1860 Indenture 30 July Shearing days fines or shearing rents and other dues.

shearing-season n.

ΚΠ

1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 817/1 Organized shearing bands, with captains, that go from ranch to ranch in the shearing season.

shearing-time n.

ΚΠ

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. xiii. 30 Suffir ye tham bathe to grow into schering-tyme.

1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 284.

1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 137 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V Shearing time..is the month of June.

1953 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 188 Shearing-time was always a worry for Charlie.

shearing-floor n.

ΚΠ

1863 R. Henning Let. 26 Nov. (1966) 146 The shearing floor is made to accommodate twelve shearers.

a1914 in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 178 Round the shearing-floor the listening shearers gape.

shearing-house n.

ΚΠ

1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe iii. D 4 Or consuming fire Brent his shearing-house.

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 145 A very large and commodious shearing-house.

shearing paddock n.

ΚΠ

1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 25 Nov. Shearing paddock, handy paddock to hold sheep during shearing.

shearing-shed n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed

wool-shed1846

shed1855

shearing-shed1857

open shed1871

1857 H. W. Harper Let. 1 Sept. in Lett. from N.Z. (1914) 19 He took me to his shearing shed.

1910 N. Munro Fancy Farm xiii. 126 The dipping-fold or the shearing-shed.

c. Esp. in names of tools, weapons, etc. used in the process of shearing.

shearing-board n.

ΚΠ

1661 W. Petty Making Cloth 27 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 64 The lower chap [of the sheer] is kept close down to the sheering~board with weights of lead.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvii The shearing board would be deserted.

shearing-knife n.

ΚΠ

1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Shearen-knife, a thatcher's tool for shearing the roof.

shearing-machine n.

ΚΠ

1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 729/1 Shearing or cropping machines have now very commonly superseded the hand shearing.

1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges II. 665 A steam-engine, with the necessary shafting, for driving the punching and shearing machines.

1977 Yin Ming United & Equal 70 The commune has gradually mechanized its operations. It now has over 80 items of mechanized equipment—trucks, tractors, diesel engines, fodder-processors, mowers and shearing machines.

† shearing-shaft n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 87 Iuno..was wounded sore..By triple headed sheering shafte.

† shearing-shears n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Sharing sheares ready, for sheepe to be shorne.

† shearing-sword n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing vii. 200 A good light Sheering-Sword.

shearing-table n.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shearing-table, a bench for holding sheep while being sheared.

C2.

a. Special combinations.

shearing-darg n. Scottish a day's-work performed by a shearer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > day or spell of shearing

shearing-darg1550

shear-darg1600

run1900

1550 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1593, 794/2 Lie scheringdargis.

† shearing-hook n. Obsolete = shear-hook n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > hooks for cutting rigging

hookc1385

shearing-hookc1385

shear-hook1410

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Fairf.) 641 In gooth the grapenel so ful of crokes Amonge the ropes and the sheryng hokes.

1586 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 32 Makynge of towe sherynge houkes x^d.

† shearing-ram n. Obsolete a ram past its first shearing and therefore about one year old.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > uncastrated or ram > at specific stage in life

shearing-ram1797

1797 Sporting Mag. 10 123 The use of some of his shearing rams..for fifty guineas each.

b. In scientific terms (see sense 6 and shear v. 9).

shearing plane n. Geology = shear plane n. at shear n.² Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > plane

thrust-plane1884

shear plane1888

fault-plane1889

shearing plane1889

sole1889

bed-plane1895

bedding-plane1897

bedding fault1909

1889 O. Fisher Physics Earth's Crust (ed. 2) xx. 263 The throw, that in faulting occurs along a single shearing plane, the ‘fault-’ or ‘thrust-plane’.

shearing strain n. a strain of the nature of a shear (shear n.² 5a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet

shear1850

shearing1850

shearing strain1850

1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges II. 517 The strain called by Mr. Stephenson ‘the shearing strain’, which rendered thick plates necessary at the extremities of the tubes.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 134 A shearing strain.

shearing strength n. power of resistance to shearing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [noun] > specific

shearing strength1869

impact strength1904

creep strength1929

impact resistance1934

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xvii. 333 The shearing strengths of rivets are proportional to the sectional Areas.

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 497 The ultimate shearing strength..is..equal, or nearly equal, to the tenacity.

shearing stress n. a stress tending to produce or resist a shear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > other specific types of stress

shear1850

shear strain1856

bending stress1858

proof strain1858

proof stress1862

shearing stress1869

shear stress1872

water stress1895

slip1900

fibre stress1905

hoop stress1909

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 496 Every shearing stress is equivalent to a pair of direct stresses of the same intensity, one tensile and the other compressive, exerted in directions making angles of 45° with the shearing stress.

1910 Love in Encycl. Brit. IX. 143/1 A state of stress in which there is purely tangential traction on a plane, and no normal traction on any perpendicular plane, is described as a state of ‘shearing stress’.

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单词	shearing
释义	shearingn. Brit. /ˈʃɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Etymology: < shear v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action or an act of cutting, clipping, or shaving with shears or some other sharp instrument. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) shearingc1315 paring1319 concision1382 shaving1390 thwiting1393 forcingc1440 trousing1512 trimmingc1525 circumcision1581 snipping1583 clipping1589 snip-snap1597 trim1608 whittling1614 collinga1628 shripping1635 snippery1639 undercuttinga1652 exscindinga1677 nipping1693 snip-snapping1906 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving dodding?c1225 shearingc1315 shaving138. tonsure1390 pollinga1400 clippingc1440 rasure1483 barbing1485 trimmingc1525 colling1575 tonsuring1811 detonsure1819 pogonotomy1896 poodling1907 razor cutting1952 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing shearingc1315 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] shearing?1523 sheep-shearing1607 sheep-shear1616 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing reapingc1350 mowinga1425 shearing1779 grass seeding1882 mow1975 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes limation1617 matting1688 sheeting1776 blooming1812 steeling1816 ungraining1839 tarnishing1858 ironing1868 shimming1872 beating1875 siliconizing1880 shearing1881 inoxidizing1883 rustproofing1892 picking1895 rifting1903 Bayer process1910 autofrettage1919 prefinishing1935 panel beating1953 splatting1976 c1315 Shoreham i. 1416 Þat hys in holy cherche y-cleped wel Þe furste scherynge Of clerke. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2624 Sharpe schudering of schote, schering [Dubl. MS. sheryng] of mailes. 1490 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 138 Item, for the schereing of xxxiij elne j quartar of clayth. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiii^v Beware that y^u put nat to many shepe in a penne at one time..at the shering. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 77 Grace, and Remembrance be to you both, And welcome to our Shearing . View more context for this quotation 1709 A. Pope Summer in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 735 When Swains from Sheering seek their nightly Bow'rs. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cloth The Sheerman takes it, and gives it its first cut, or sheering. 1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 92 The Cutting of Wheat is termed Shearing. 1848 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. (1896) 136/2 Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl..who can sing at a husking or romp at shearing. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shearing,..cutting up steel for the crucible. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 122 With spring came all the bustle of washing and shearing. 1891 W. Morris Poems by Way (1896) 191 It was Goldilocks woke up in the morn At the first of the shearing of the corn. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xvi. 136 I was looking forward to the shearing. †2. Cleavage, parting, division. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] forkinga1400 shearingc1400 divarication1578 bifurcation1646 divergence1656 divergency1738 divergement1766 trifurcation1884 c1400 Sc. Trojan War i. 502 This hede and taill ar for to say A myddle scheryng in þe way Of a cercle þat turnys in hevene. 3. Something which is cut off with shears or some other sharp implement. Now only plural. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off cutting1382 culponc1400 clipping1461 chop?1463 shearing1536 sharing?1553 chopping1558 snip1558 share1590 snipping1611 offcut1663 snippet1664 kerf1678 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off > that which is cut off shearing1536 offcut1663 1536 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 56 To..my shepherde fyve sheipe sheringes. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 90 A pounde of the shearinge of Scarlet. 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 287 It was like the sheering of the Hogs, all Bristles. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 295. ¶10 He would..have presented her, once in three Years, with the Sheering of his Sheep to keep her in Under-Petticoats. 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 61 Put the Shearings of Scarlet Cloath upon the Coals. 1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica vi. 55 A certain quantity of the shearings of fine woollen cloth. 4. dialect. A designation for a sheep after the first shearing, a shearling. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > one year old or sheared once shearling1378 hoggaster1388 hogget1421 shear-sheep1503 shear-hog?1523 hoggerel1530 shear wether hog1537 teg1537 hog sheep1552 lamb-hog1607 shearinga1642 two-teeth1776 hogling1856 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 4 After they are once shorne, they are called gimmer shearings. 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) 95 Shearing, a sheep a year old, or once shorn. 1786 G. Culley Observ. Live Stock (1807) Introd. p. xviii Then they take the name of shearing, shearling, shear-hog. 5. Mining. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > types of cutting > specifically in coal-mine kirving1827 shearing1875 wall-cutting1886 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shearing,..the making of vertical cuts at the ends of a portion of an undercut seam of coal. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 174 Shearing. 1. The vertical side-cutting which, together with holing or horizontal undercutting, constitutes the attack upon a face of coal. 6. Physics, etc. See shear v. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet shear1850 shearing1850 shearing strain1850 1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges I. 389 Under these circumstances failure takes place solely from the vertical shearing of the material in a transverse direction. 1858 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Appl. Mech. §279. 299 The resistance of timber to shearing is in each case that which acts between contiguous layers of fibres. 1869 Lond. etc. Philos. Jrnl. 38 71 On the Fracture of Brittle and Viscous Solids by ‘Shearing’. By Sir William Thomson, F.R.S. 1876 F. Jenkin Bridges §3 in Encycl. Brit. IV. 285/2 There are three kinds of stress, due to tension, compression, and shearing. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (1903) iii. i. iv. §4. 428 The planes of sedimentation, or those of cleavage or shearing where these have been developed, being naturally those along which water passes most easily. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. shearing-day n. ΚΠ 1860 Indenture 30 July Shearing days fines or shearing rents and other dues. shearing-feast n. ΚΠ 1595 E. Spenser Astrophel in Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. F1 Emongst the shepheards in their shearing feast. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. vi. 165 Thou shalt have a necklace of jet at next shearing-feast. shearing-rent n. ΚΠ 1860 Indenture 30 July Shearing days fines or shearing rents and other dues. shearing-season n. ΚΠ 1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 817/1 Organized shearing bands, with captains, that go from ranch to ranch in the shearing season. shearing-time n. ΚΠ c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. xiii. 30 Suffir ye tham bathe to grow into schering-tyme. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 284. 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 137 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V Shearing time..is the month of June. 1953 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 188 Shearing-time was always a worry for Charlie. b. shearing-floor n. ΚΠ 1863 R. Henning Let. 26 Nov. (1966) 146 The shearing floor is made to accommodate twelve shearers. a1914 in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 178 Round the shearing-floor the listening shearers gape. shearing-house n. ΚΠ 1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe iii. D 4 Or consuming fire Brent his shearing-house. 1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 145 A very large and commodious shearing-house. shearing paddock n. ΚΠ 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 25 Nov. Shearing paddock, handy paddock to hold sheep during shearing. shearing-shed n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed wool-shed1846 shed1855 shearing-shed1857 open shed1871 1857 H. W. Harper Let. 1 Sept. in Lett. from N.Z. (1914) 19 He took me to his shearing shed. 1910 N. Munro Fancy Farm xiii. 126 The dipping-fold or the shearing-shed. c. Esp. in names of tools, weapons, etc. used in the process of shearing. shearing-board n. ΚΠ 1661 W. Petty Making Cloth 27 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 64 The lower chap [of the sheer] is kept close down to the sheering~board with weights of lead. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvii The shearing board would be deserted. shearing-knife n. ΚΠ 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Shearen-knife, a thatcher's tool for shearing the roof. shearing-machine n. ΚΠ 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 729/1 Shearing or cropping machines have now very commonly superseded the hand shearing. 1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges II. 665 A steam-engine, with the necessary shafting, for driving the punching and shearing machines. 1977 Yin Ming United & Equal 70 The commune has gradually mechanized its operations. It now has over 80 items of mechanized equipment—trucks, tractors, diesel engines, fodder-processors, mowers and shearing machines. † shearing-shaft n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 87 Iuno..was wounded sore..By triple headed sheering shafte. † shearing-shears n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Sharing sheares ready, for sheepe to be shorne. † shearing-sword n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing vii. 200 A good light Sheering-Sword. shearing-table n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Shearing-table, a bench for holding sheep while being sheared. C2. a. Special combinations. shearing-darg n. Scottish a day's-work performed by a shearer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > day or spell of shearing shearing-darg1550 shear-darg1600 run1900 1550 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1593, 794/2 Lie scheringdargis. † shearing-hook n. Obsolete = shear-hook n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > hooks for cutting rigging hookc1385 shearing-hookc1385 shear-hook1410 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Fairf.) 641 In gooth the grapenel so ful of crokes Amonge the ropes and the sheryng hokes. 1586 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 32 Makynge of towe sherynge houkes x^d. † shearing-ram n. Obsolete a ram past its first shearing and therefore about one year old. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > uncastrated or ram > at specific stage in life shearing-ram1797 1797 Sporting Mag. 10 123 The use of some of his shearing rams..for fifty guineas each. b. In scientific terms (see sense 6 and shear v. 9). shearing plane n. Geology = shear plane n. at shear n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > plane thrust-plane1884 shear plane1888 fault-plane1889 shearing plane1889 sole1889 bed-plane1895 bedding-plane1897 bedding fault1909 1889 O. Fisher Physics Earth's Crust (ed. 2) xx. 263 The throw, that in faulting occurs along a single shearing plane, the ‘fault-’ or ‘thrust-plane’. shearing strain n. a strain of the nature of a shear (shear n.² 5a). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > sheet shear1850 shearing1850 shearing strain1850 1850 E. Clark Britannia & Conway Bridges II. 517 The strain called by Mr. Stephenson ‘the shearing strain’, which rendered thick plates necessary at the extremities of the tubes. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 134 A shearing strain. shearing strength n. power of resistance to shearing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [noun] > specific shearing strength1869 impact strength1904 creep strength1929 impact resistance1934 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xvii. 333 The shearing strengths of rivets are proportional to the sectional Areas. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 497 The ultimate shearing strength..is..equal, or nearly equal, to the tenacity. shearing stress n. a stress tending to produce or resist a shear. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > other specific types of stress shear1850 shear strain1856 bending stress1858 proof strain1858 proof stress1862 shearing stress1869 shear stress1872 water stress1895 slip1900 fibre stress1905 hoop stress1909 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 496 Every shearing stress is equivalent to a pair of direct stresses of the same intensity, one tensile and the other compressive, exerted in directions making angles of 45° with the shearing stress. 1910 Love in Encycl. Brit. IX. 143/1 A state of stress in which there is purely tangential traction on a plane, and no normal traction on any perpendicular plane, is described as a state of ‘shearing stress’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shearingadj. Brit. /ˈʃɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Etymology: < shear v. + -ing suffix². That shears, in various senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) shearing1487 snip-snap1600 scything1822 whittling1839 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 455 Thai seruit thame in sa gret wayne With scherand swerdis and with knyvis. a1586 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxiii. 18 The sheirand shaft soon slippit to my hairt. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 113 As a sheering wind it kills all in the bud. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ix. xxiv. 114 Like twin sharks..showing 'bove the water blue Their shearing fins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1315adj.1487
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