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Clip :: Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.

Clip :: Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Lambale :: Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

Shorling :: Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing..

Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) 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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