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n. A person employed to remove the wool from sheep using shears.

n. one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

n. One who shears

n. A dyadic determining a simple shear.

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

n. Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)

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

"He went on strike, as they do in this country, and just before the final collapse we had those extraordinary strikes known as the shearer strikes in the interior and the marine strike along the coast; until the business men, the wholesale men, were sworn in as constables and marched day and night with baton and revolver in order to keep life and property secure."

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