Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation it is to shear cloth.
- noun A barber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
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- noun One whose occupation is to
shear cloth.
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Examples
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Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city.
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