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# shearer

«shearer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to cut the wool off sheep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a shearer, shearers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shearer is a person whose job is to cut the wool off sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#m1)

2) A shearer can be any person or machine that shears or cuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons about Australia and New Zealand, shearers travel from farm to farm in shearing season, working in a woolshed; fast shearers can shear hundreds of sheep in a day. It is hard physical work. Phrases: «a sheep shearer», «gun shearer» (Australia, NZ slang: a very fast, skilled shearer), «shearers' cook».

### examples

- The shearer clipped the fleece off in one piece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x1)
- Shearers travel from station to station in the spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x2)
- A gun shearer can shear over 200 sheep a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x3)
- The shearer's back aches after a long day in the woolshed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x4)
- My uncle is a shearer in New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x5)
- Shearing doesn't hurt the sheep, like a haircut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x6)
- If one shearer takes 4 minutes per sheep, how many can she shear in an hour? 15. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/#x7)

### note

Countable: a shearer, shearers. Verb: shear (sheared, shorn). Do not confuse «shear» (cut) with «sheer» (steep or see-through).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shearer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.