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Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

Shorling :: Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing..

Disheartened :: Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearte.

Lambale :: Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..

Scissor :: Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

Shorn :: Shorn () p. p. of Shear.

Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.

Shearling :: Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.

Clip :: Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Crew :: Crew (n.) The Manx shearwater.

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..

Unman :: Unman (v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain..

Clip :: Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.

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