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.
The act of wiping something.
A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
To erase.
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
To deperm (a ship).
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
To remove an expression from one's face.