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Definition of Sheepshearing

1. Noun. The time or season when sheep are sheared.

2. Noun. A festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared.

3. Noun. Act of shearing sheep.

Definition of Sheepshearing

1. n. Act of shearing sheep.

Definition of Sheepshearing

1. Noun. The act of shearing sheep. ¹

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Definition of Sheepshearing

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepshearing

sheepo sheepos sheeprack sheeprun sheepruns sheeps sheepshaggers sheepshank sheepshanks sheepshead

sheepshead porgy sheepsheads sheepshearer sheepshearers sheepshearing (current term) sheepshearings sheepskin sheepskin coat sheepskins sheepwalk

sheepwalks sheepy sheer sheer(a) sheered sheerer sheerest sheering

Literary usage of Sheepshearing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Voyage to Australia and New Zealand, Including a Visit to Adelaide by John Askew (1857)
"Then there are two or three clear months in the year, when they can have abundance of work at harvesting and sheepshearing in the country. ..."

2. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1881)
"Yon will notice about sheepshearing that the shearers always shear at a suitable time. It would be a very wicked, cruel, and unwise thing to begin ..."

3. Wood Carvings in English Churches by Francis Bond (1910)
"This was the month for sheepshearing also ; old Tusser writes : " In June wash thy sheep when the ... sheepshearing is represented in Beverley Minster (94). ..."

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