shearling
[sheer-ling]
- Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- short wool pulled from such a sheep.
- the skin from a recently shorn sheep or lamb, tanned with the wool still on it.
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Origin of shearling
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Contemporary Examples
Urban shearling coats were worn with silk dresses printed with patterns inspired by aboriginal art.
Historical Examples
He said his father was shepherd to a big farmer, who had sent him with two score of shearling ewes to get highland pasture.
On the following night Viscount Birdsaye lost a shearling ram, for which he was reported to have paid a fabulous sum.
Bob, Son of BattleAlfred Ollivant
The shearling tup is then a 2-shear tup, and the dinmont is a wether, but more correctly a 2-shear wether.
Of the nine shearling ewes he “fed” for the Cambridge Show, he lost four, and only raised two or three lambs from the rest.
A Walk from London to John O'Groat'sElihu Burritt
shearling
- a young sheep after its first shearing
- the skin of such an animal
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