shearer in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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A shearer catches a sheep and brings it to his stand; he then pulls the handle and his machine is ready.
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The shepherd would invite shearers and other people to honor them.
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A major strike by shearers in 1891 led to the government deploying military forces.
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The shearer collects a sheep from a catching pen, positions it on his stand on the shearing board and operates the shearing hand-piece.
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Wet or damp sheep may cause health problems for the shearers and damp wool can't be pressed.
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Shearer's eight games yielded only five points out of a possible twenty-four.
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Bill was a good sheep shearer and could do a hundred sheep a day at ten cents a head.
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This was a faster tally than any other shearer had achieved before.
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With sheep numbers declining in that country the profession sees significantly less interest in becoming a qualified shearer.
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It means a shearer of woolen garments, being derived from the words "scearra", or shears, and "mann", or man.
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