allotment vs shearing

allotment

noun
  • The act of allotting. 

  • The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person. 

  • A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables. 

  • Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed 

shearing

noun
  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • 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 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. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

How often have the words allotment and shearing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )