Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person employed to remove the wool from animals, such as sheep. using shears.

    a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals

  2. A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.

  3. A piece of industrial equipment used to grind up long shafts of coal in underground mines.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The shearer sheared the sheep.

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  2. Tom is a professional shearer.

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  3. A highly skilled shearer can shear a sheep in two to three minutes depending on the size and condition of the sheep.

    ruОпытный стригальщик может остричь овцу за две-три минуты, в зависимости от размера и состояния овцы.

    deEin gewandter Scherer kann ein Schaf, je nach Größe und Verfassung, in zwei bis drei Minuten scheren.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

plural: shearers
Singularshearer
Pluralshearers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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