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Shearing

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Shear·ing  (shîrng), George Albert Born 1919.
British jazz pianist and composer whose signature sound is marked by a unique quintet arrangement that includes bass, guitar, drums, and vibraphone.
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Noun1.Shearing - removing by cutting off or clippingshearing - removing by cutting off or clipping
cutting off, cutting, cut - the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut"
sheepshearing - act of shearing sheep
Translations
shearing [ˈʃɪərɪŋ]
A. N → esquileo m shearings → lana fsing esquilada
B. CPD shearing machine N → esquiladora f
shearing
n → (Schaf)schur f; shearings → Schur- or Scherwolle f
shearing:
shearing machine
n → Schermaschine f
shearing time
n → Schurzeit f, → Zeit f → der Schafschur
shearing [ˈʃɪərɪŋ] n → tosatura
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At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Yards, furlongs, miles arose; and on went old John in the pleasantest manner possible, trimming off an exuberance in this place, shearing away some liberty of speech or action in that, and conducting himself in his small way with as much high mightiness and majesty, as the most glorious tyrant that ever had his statue reared in the public ways, of ancient or of modern times.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them both look sharp, forsooth.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
 
 
 
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