keritä — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
keritä is used for these senses in English:
- fleece (transitive) To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
- shear (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- shear (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
fleece — full definition
- noun The woolly coat of a sheep, or wool shorn from it in one piece.
- noun A soft, warm synthetic fabric, or a garment made from it.
- verb (informal) To cheat or overcharge someone.
shear — full definition
- verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.
- verb To cut through something cleanly, or to break suddenly under sideways force.
- noun A force that pushes two parts of an object in opposite, parallel directions.
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