Sheep-shearer

Sheep´-shear`er


n.1.One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
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It has been dominated by New Zealand's famous sheep-shearer David Fagan, who has won the competition a record five times.
All in a minute's work
You're a handsome Aussie sheep-shearer who has to move your stubborn ewe to the right spot so you can get at that wool.
IT'S HARD TO SWALLOW; You won't believe some of the stupid studies that boffins carry out
Which is why I don't want to hear any complaints after Saturday's wedding between the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's daughter Lady Davina, and a Maori builder called Gazza - the son of a sheep-shearer and a housemaid.
BRIAN READE: BRIDLED PASSION
On the rebound, she marries a barely literate sheep-shearer.
Bluestocking in Patagonia
He gave up rock music at 17 to become a sheep-shearer and travel-writer before eventually buying El Valero, a remote mountain farm in a beautiful part of Spain's Andalusia.
Book review: The brave new world yearned for the past
She had previously been abused by an elderly priest there and the attacks by Paterson, 47, a New Zealand-born sheep-shearer, went on for two years.
PERVERT MONK HIT WOMAN IN HER PRIVATES; No jail for shamed cleric over repeated attacks
The robotic sheep-shearer and the floating bicycle failed to catch on, while Baxter's assertion in 1965 that paper pants would replace conventional underwear in three years' didn't quite come true.
Tomorrow's World is part of yesterday
This week, Maggie's fellow presenter Kieran Prendiville was shown introducing two exciting inventions from 1981 - the robot sheep-shearer and the compact disc.
It's Blank Holiday telly again
However, she told Aberdeen Sheriff Court New Zealander Paterson, 47, a former sheep-shearer, groped her and exposed himself to her.
UNI MONK GUILTY OF SEX ABUSE; Attack on 'vulnerable' victim
Known in the village as "Miss Helen", Martins worked with three local men in her 30-year creative endeavour, the most important of whom was former sheep-shearer Koos Malgas with whom she collaborated for the last 12 years of her life.
The Owl House takes off; Reclusive Helen Martins died an unknown in 1976, now the village in which she lived is a haven for artists, says Emma Thomasson
This week, the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd will, as it has done every year since 1904, celebrate Welsh farming's best offerings - from hulking Welsh Black cattle to lightning-quick sheep-shearers.
My urgent message to Michael Gove
And farmers unwilling to splash the cash on electric sheep-shearers can read about the virtues of owning a 12-ft therizinosaurus, which will do the job in half the time.
BOOKS: A monstrous idea -but it works well; How To Keep Dinosaurs, by Robert Mash, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 12.99. Reviewed by Sophie Blakemore

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