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

Shears :: Shears (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle..

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

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

Disanimate :: Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

Procellarian :: Procellarian (n.) One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather..

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..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece..

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) The common tern.

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) A pair of wings.

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

Disheartening :: Disheartening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearte.

Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..

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..

Sheared :: Sheared (imp.) of Shea.

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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