keritä — meaning in English

English meaning

• fleece noun The woolly coat of a sheep, or wool shorn from it in one piece.
• shear verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.

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

1. noun The woolly coat of a sheep, or wool shorn from it in one piece.
2. noun A soft, warm synthetic fabric, or a garment made from it.
3. verb (informal) To cheat or overcharge someone.

shear — full definition

1. verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.
2. verb To cut through something cleanly, or to break suddenly under sideways force.
3. noun A force that pushes two parts of an object in opposite, parallel directions.

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