shearer


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shear

 (shîr)
v. sheared, sheared or shorn (shôrn), shear·ing, shears
v.tr.
1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.
2. To remove the hair or fleece from.
3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge.
4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were shorn of their dignity.
v.intr.
1. To use a cutting tool such as shears.
2. To move or proceed by or as if by cutting: shear through the wheat.
3. Physics To become deformed by shear force.
n.
1. often shears
a. A pair of scissors.
b. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action.
2. The act, process, or result of shearing, especially when used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram.
3. Something cut off by shearing.
4. also sheers (shîrz)(used with a sing. or pl. verb) An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top.
5. Physics
a. See shear force.
b. See shear strain.
c. See shear stress.
[Middle English scheren, from Old English sceran; see sker- in Indo-European roots. N., from Middle English shere, from Old English scēar; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]
shear′er n.

Shear·er

 (shîr′ər), Moira 1926-2006.
British ballerina best known for her role in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948).
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Shearer

(ˈʃɪərə)
n
(Biography) Alan. born 1970, English footballer: a striker, he scored 30 goals in 63 matches for England (1992–2000); played for Blackburn Rovers (1992–96) and Newcastle United (1996–2006) during which he scored an English Premier League record 260 goals in 441 matches
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)Shearer - Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)
Moira Shearer
2.shearer - a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles
working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
3.shearer - a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals
skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
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Translations

shearer

[ˈʃɪərəʳ] N → esquilador(a) m/f
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shearer

n → (Schaf)scherer(in) m(f)
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shearer

[ˈʃɪərəʳ] n (person) → tosatore/trice; (machine) → tosatrice f
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If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me."
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When David shed his curls at the hair-dresser's, I am told, he said good-bye to them without a tremor, though Mary has never been quite the same bright creature since, so he despises the sheep as they run from their shearer and calls out tauntingly, "Cowardy, cowardy custard!" But when the man grips them between his legs David shakes a fist at him for using such big scissors.
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Never did the sheep turn upon her shearer with a more commanding front.
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There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others."
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Shearers worked all day in a field on one side of the river, and we could hear the stones going on the hooks and the voices and even the words of the men talking.
As soon as the shearers quit their work and the dusk began to fall, we waded ashore and struck for the Bridge of Stirling, keeping to the fields and under the field fences.
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Outside his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep for the shearers. He would have taken his gaiters off his legs, to give away.
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