Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
shearing-machine , 3. Alsosheep-shearers . - noun One who shears or clips sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
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Examples
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Until the grandson of a 19th-century sheep-shearer built a village of recycled wood eco-villas on 7,500 acres near the gigantic quartzite Wilpena Pound, you had to fly all the way to Adelaide, South Australia and drive several hours north just to spend your adventuresome nights in a work-a-day motel, peppered with people who ate rodents.
Adam Baer: Really Simple Ways To Save, So That You Can Enjoy My Luxury Service Journalism 2009
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Lance happened to be documenting a sheep-shearer from the countryside studying to be a hairdresser.
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Instead of sitting at a bench, or standing at a table, the sheep-shearer worked on his knees, extending the sheep prone upon the barn floor.
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The tanned haymakers welcome her coming; and the sheep-shearer, who clips the fleeces off his flock with his sounding shears.
The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States. Richard McAllister 1864
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Mudge also had got shaved by the captain's black cook, an African who had accompanied him on shore, and who was barber, sheep-shearer, tailor, carpenter, and I don't know how many other trades besides.
Twice Lost William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarrás, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be.
unknown title 2011
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Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarr´s, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be.
unknown title 2011
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Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarr´s, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be.
unknown title 2011
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Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarrás, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be.
unknown title 2011
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Chris Stewart, skilled sheep-shearer and sometime Genesis drummer, took one look at the Alpujarr´s, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and decided that's where he wanted to be.
unknown title 2011
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