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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..

Woolfell :: Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

Shearmen :: Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearma.

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Shearman :: Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

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

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Belt :: Belt (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep..

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

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) One who shears.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

Shearn :: Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.

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..

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances..

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

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