different between shearing vs sheafing

English

From Middle English scheryng; equivalent to shear +? -ing.

shearing (not comparable)

shearing

shearing (countable and uncountable, plural shearings)

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.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
Alternative form of shearling.
- 1864, William Youatt, The Complete Grazier and Farmer's and Cattle-Breeder's
  When male sheep have been castrated , they are termed — from the period of weaning to that of shearing — wether , or wedder or shear hogs or tegs, then shearings , shearlings , dinmonts , & c .
(Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
(mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

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