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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.) Same as Shearling.

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

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

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..

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

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..

Mishear :: Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.

Disheart :: Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.

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..

Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.

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

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..

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

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

Unheart :: Unheart (v. t.) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.

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..

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

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

Clip :: Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin..

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