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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Shears wool from live sheep, using power-driven clippers or hand shears: Places animal in shearing station. Clips wool close to hide so that fleece is removed in one piece and exercises care to nick or cut skin as little as possible. Herds shorn animal into runway leading to pen. Oils and sharpens clippers and shears. May tie fleece. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sheep shearer washing up for dinner, Malheur County, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SHEEP SHEARER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kreaturklippemaskine til håndkraft (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers), kreaturklippemaskine (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers), fåresaks (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veeschaar (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tondeuse pour bétail, tondeuse (shearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Viehschere (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουρευτική μηχανή ζώων (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tosatrice per bestiame (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepshay earershay tosquiadora para o gado (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers). (various references) esquiladora manual (cattle clippers, hand-operated clippers), esquiladora (shearing machine, sheepshearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sheepshearer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-h-h-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: aphereses, rehearses, rephrases, reshapers. | |
-4 letters: asperser, rehashes, rehearse, rephrase, reshaper, reshapes, sharpers, shearers, spearers. | |
-5 letters: apheses, asperse, erasers, harpers, harsher, hearers, hearses, pareses, parsers, peeress, phrases, presser, rashers, raspers, reapers, rehears, repress, reshape, rhaphes, serapes, seraphs, shapers, sharers, sharper, shearer, sheerer, sherpas, spahees, sparers, sparser, spearer, spheres. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-h-h-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sheepshearers. | |
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| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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