Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Shearer   /ʃˈɪrər/   Listen
Shearer

noun
1.
Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926).  Synonym: Moira Shearer.
2.
A workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles.
3.
A skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Shearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the shearer. They were dumb. Great God! can I ever forget that sea of white faces under the grey winter sky, or the universal groan that went up to heaven when the stroke of the axe sounded on the block, and men knew that the murder of their King was consummated; ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What reeks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.

... tries to shear, But comes right little speed, I fear; 'The corn lies ill,' and aye we hear 'The sickle's bad:' The byeword says, 'Ill shearer ne'er A gude hook ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop

... of the dairy-maids gave notice, avowing that the farm was haunted; that, on several occasions in the early morning, she had seen a bogie flitting down the slope to the Wastrel—a sure portent, Sam'l declared, of an approaching death in the house. While once a shearer, coming up from the village, reported having seen, in the twilight of dawn, a little ghostly figure, haggard and startled, stealing silently from tree to tree in the larch-copse by the lane. The Master, however, irritated by these constant ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant



Words linked to "Shearer" :   dancer, workman, terpsichorean, skilled workman, working person, working man, skilled worker, shear, actress, professional dancer, trained worker, workingman



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com