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.
Tending to cut or tear.
The act of uprooting something.
To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.