Which preposition to use with shearings

of Occurrences 5%

He further informed me that he would have given her a coalpit to keep her in clean linen; that he would have allowed her the profits of a windmill for her fans, and have presented her once in three years with the shearing of his sheep for her under-petticoats.

at Occurrences 2%

I heard them laying down they met with McDonough at the big shearing at Cregroostha.

across Occurrences 1%

Shearing across the grain is so closely related to compression at right angles to the grain and to hardness that there is little to be gained by making separate tests upon it.

toward Occurrences 1%

Ithuel succeeded the best He repaid McBean in his own coin, sending a grist of bullets into the bows of his launch, which admonished that prudent officer of the necessity of shearing toward the islet of the ruins.

Which preposition to use with  shearings