sheepshearing
Americannoun
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an act or instance of shearing sheep.
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the time or season of shearing sheep.
noun
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the act or process of shearing sheep
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the season or an occasion of shearing sheep
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a feast held on such an occasion
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sheepshearing
1580–90; sheep + shear ( def. ) + -ing 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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At Te Kuiti High School, he was a reluctant student given to taking time off to help his father with sheepshearing and other tasks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2017
Loopy, lovely and almost impossibly good-humored, it whisks kids and their caregivers away to Bohemia and plunks them down in the midst of a sheepshearing festival.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2017
Their largely rural life — the barefoot kids, the sheepshearing, the vegetarian cooking — was filled with a great deal of what seems like genuine and dog-hair-covered happiness.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2016
The sheepshearing scenes — despite the comic talents of Adam Green, Dominic Cuskern and Steve Cuiffo — seem studied rather than rollicking.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
More had been better a scoured Moreditch than a notched me thus: does he begin sheepshearing with Jack Faulkner?
From Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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