The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Tending to cut or tear.