shearer

Definition of Shearer in English :

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Noun

1. moira shearer, shearer

Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)

moira shearer

2. shearer

a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles

3. shearer

a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shearer

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noun

Alan. born 1970, English footballer: a striker, he scored 30 goals in 63 matches for England (1992–2000); played for Blackburn Rovers (1992–96) and Newcastle United (1996–2006) during which he scored an English Premier League record 260 goals in 441 matches

Shearer

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British ballerina best known for her role in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948).

v. sheared, sheared or shorn (shôrn), shear·ing, shears

v.tr.

1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.

2. To remove the hair or fleece from.

3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge.

4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were shorn of their dignity.

v.intr.

1. To use a cutting tool such as shears.

2. To move or proceed by or as if by cutting: shear through the wheat.

3. Physics To become deformed by shear force.

n.

1. often shears

a. A pair of scissors.

b. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action.

2. The act, process, or result of shearing, especially when used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram.

3. Something cut off by shearing.

4. also sheers (shîrz) (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top.

5. Physics

a. See shear force.

b. See shear strain.

c. See shear stress.

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