Definition of "barbering" [barbering]

• The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair. (noun)
• The practice among pets of overgrooming each other, leaving bald patches. (noun)

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• "One of the tricks to barbering is to get somewhere and stay."
• "No person purposely touches another; in fact the occupations which require physical contact, such as barbering, doctoring, clothes-fitting, are considered pariah trades."
• "Waiting for a boat in St. Louis one beautiful summer morning on the quay, where in Paris I should have found the book-stalls, I saw a Pullman train just starting for New York, and at the water's edge under the stately bridge one tramp "barbering" another."