Shearing machine

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A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal
A machine for shearing cloth.

See also: Shearing, Shearing

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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[ClickPress, Tue Jul 02 2019] Hydraulic shearing machine are industrial cutting machines used for cutting, bending, pressing and punching metal plates and sheets.
Request of offers from agents for the supply & erection of a cold billet hydraulic shearing machine of 130 X 130 mm.
A blaze had broken out in a room containing a metal shearing machine. Police sealed off nearby roads as firefighters put it out by pumping water from Walsall Canal.
Jon Woollman, Ruabon, with his 1910 Lister shearing machine at Gwaenynog "If anyone had thought I would still be organising this show after 21 years, I wouldn't have believed them," said Mrs Green.
Ms Bent added: "You need to know what you are doing when you have a shearing machine in your hand.
Mr Jones topped the leader board on Monday with 11,724 - enough watts to power a sheep shearing machine and a microwave.
The S4N punching and shearing machine's multi-press head, combined with an integrated shear, punches and cuts parts with speed and precision.
During shearing, the worker steps up and down from the bed several times while walking around each tree, perhaps lugging a 14-kilogram (30-pound), hand-held shearing machine. The rig basically serves to support a Saje shearing machine (by Sheerlund Products) to reduce worker fatigue and improve safety during Christmas tree shearing.
Cencorp identified a growing requirement to separate these circuits after assembly more accurately and gently than manual breaking methods employed at the time, Cencorp's first depaneling product, introduced in the early 1980s, was a manually fed shearing machine.
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