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Shearing vs Spearing - What's the difference?

shearing | spearing |

As verbs the difference between shearing and spearing

is that shearing is present participle of lang=en while spearing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between shearing and spearing

is that shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth while spearing is the stabbing of something with a spear.

As an adjective shearing

is tending to cut or tear.

shearing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Tending to cut or tear.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    • the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
  • .
    • (Youatt)
  • (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  • The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    • the shearing of metal plates
  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
    • (Webster 1913)

    spearing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The stabbing of something with a spear.
  • * 2011 , Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal (page 297)
    • These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.