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Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth..

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

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

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

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

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..

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

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

Amate :: Amate (v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

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..

Reanimate :: Reanimate (v. t.) To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits..

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.

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