Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of shearing sheep.
- noun The time of shearing sheep; also, a feast made on that occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of shearing sheep.
- noun A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared
- noun act of shearing sheep
- noun the time or season when sheep are sheared
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Examples
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A group of New Zealand sheep shearers think that sheep-shearing might make a good Olympic sport.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012
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The odds stacked against it, in the form of God, suffering, hard work, male competitiveness and sheep-shearing, seem too great to be overcome.
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A group of New Zealand sheep shearers think that sheep-shearing might make a good Olympic sport.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012
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As with Cymbeline, there is a musical and dancing extravaganza, this time at the Bohemian sheep-shearing.
May Books 6) The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare nwhyte 2009
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It's as though the 72-year-old author had just popped out of a ripening cornfield to take a sniff at the sheep-shearing contest going on behind her.
Still lives 2010
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I must protest and say that my husband's name was not always Sherman, but originally "Shereman", related to the "Clothier" family, associated with sheep-shearing and clothing.
Altered Boxes 2008
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I must protest and say that my husband's name was not always Sherman, but originally "Shereman", related to the "Clothier" family, associated with sheep-shearing and clothing.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Bergstein and the poet-composer Mattityahu Shelem (1904 – 1975), who were members of this group, helped to create a festival to celebrate the end of the sheep-shearing.
Leah Bergstein. 2009
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Together, they created ceremonies for nature and labor festivals, of which the sheep-shearing festival at Bet Alfa was the first.
Leah Bergstein. 2009
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Judah will pass as he comes back happy and horny (and maybe tipsy) from a sheep-shearing festival.
Tamar: Bible. 2009
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