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Shearer

[ UK /ʃˈi‍əɹɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɪɹɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)

How To Use Shearer In A Sentence

  • Shrek went under the shearer's blade during a live half - hour news programme on TV New Zealand.
  • Since the 1880s, the national culture has celebrated the underdog - the Eureka gold miners, sheep stealing swaggies, renegade bushrangers, and striking shearers.
  • At Wembley, still seeking low-gear fitness, at times he brought to mind not so much a young Alan Shearer as the old Alan Shearer, a single pummelling shooting boot, to be unpackaged and wheeled about the park like a rust-bound first world war field gun. England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
  • inby the shearer that appeared to be new, the report says. NPR Topics: News
  • During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters.
  • A recent union survey of shearers found 70 per cent would not encourage their friends, family or children to become shearers, saying the back-breaking work was no longer worth it.
  • The longwall's cutting tool, called a shearer, was cutting into both coal and sandstone and sparks were flying. NPR Topics: News
  • After the takeover in 1883, work was started on stock yards, fencing, station buildings and the large woolshed, with stands for 120 shearers.
  • Eventually, Shearer lost faith, dropping him to the bench.
  • They're not hard to spot; many of them dressed in stubbies and shearer's singlets, with long beards most bikies would envy.
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