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ˈsheep-ˌshearer
1. One who shears sheep.
1539Bible (Great) Gen. xxxviii. 12 Iudas..went vnto hys shepe sherers to Tymnath. 1688Holme Armoury ii. ix. 176/2 Sheep shearers. 1853Milburn Sheep & Shepherding 39 The obtaining of servants for shepherds and sheep-shearers. 1898J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village xvii. 387 First of all there was the sower's feast,..then came the sheep-shearer's feast.
b. A machine for shearing sheep.
1908Chamb. Encycl. IX. 380/1.
†2. Cant. (See quot.) Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sheep-shearers, Cheats. |