Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who shears
  • noun A dyadic determining a simple shear.

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  • noun A person employed to remove the wool from sheep using shears.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles
  • noun Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)
  • noun a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals

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Examples

  • He went on strike, as they do in this country, and just before the final collapse we had those extraordinary strikes known as the shearer strikes in the interior and the marine strike along the coast; until the business men, the wholesale men, were sworn in as constables and marched day and night with baton and revolver in order to keep life and property secure.

    Australia: Political and General Conditions 1905

  • That led to excessive sparking, investigators said, as the cutting tool, which is called a shearer, cut into a sandstone layer in the coal.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • "Rock dust," as it's called, is covered by soot from the explosion. bits and sprayers on the longwall mining machine's cutting tool, known as a shearer, did not cause excessive sparking or fail to temper sparks, coal dust and a small ignition.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • When they're functioning, the systems spray water on the longwall's cutting tool, known as a shearer, and along the coal seam as the shearer cuts into it.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The longwall's cutting tool, called a shearer, was cutting into both coal and sandstone and sparks were flying.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • That led to excessive sparking, investigators said, as the cutting tool, which is called a shearer, cut into a sandstone layer in the coal.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • When they're functioning, the systems spray water on the longwall's cutting tool, known as a shearer, and along the coal seam as the shearer cuts into it.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • That led to excessive sparking, investigators said, as the cutting tool, which is called a shearer, cut into a sandstone layer in the coal.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The longwall's cutting tool, called a shearer, was cutting into both coal and sandstone and sparks were flying.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • You were calling shearer the messiah when he first came in our saviour.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

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