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Definition of Sheepshearer
1. n. One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
Definition of Sheepshearer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepshearer
Literary usage of Sheepshearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (1823)
"The tanned haymakers welcome her coming; and the sheepshearer, who clips the
fleeces of his flock with his sounding shears. When she comes, let me lie under ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"A modest diffident look : a kind of leer ; a wishful sheepshearer, (sheep'-theer-ct)
n. ». One who shears sheep. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1876)
"“Pa-ha-ba-bc-Peep, the great sheepshearer, presented by the Secretary of State
for the Colonies,” called out the Lord Chamberlain, and with that the ..."
4. The English People Overseas by Aubrey Wyatt Tilby (1912)
"... had no more votes than the humble sheepshearer on his estate, and the continual
influx of immigrants, mostly men without capital, made for a steady ..."
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