recast vs shearing

recast

noun
  • The act or process of recasting. 

  • An utterance translated into another grammatical form. 

verb
  • To mould again. 

  • To cast or throw again. 

  • To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors. 

  • To assign (actors) to different roles. 

  • To reproduce in a new form. 

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 recast and shearing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )