The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
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 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.
A type or way of weaving.
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
To move by turning and twisting.
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.