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

Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

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..

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

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..

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

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Shears :: Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth..

Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

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

Sheared :: Sheared (p. p.) of Shea.

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

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

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree..

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

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass..

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

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