Crossword clues for shearer
shearer
- Wool gatherer
- Oscar winner Norma
- Woolgathering worker
- Wool cutter — ex-England footballer
- Wool collector
- Voice of Mr. Burns
- Sheep barber?
- One working on the sheep
- Moira or Norma
- He voices Burns, Flanders, Skinner, Lovejoy, and Brockman
- Harry who does many voices on "The Simpsons"
- Harry in "The Truman Show"
- Fleece clipper
- Edmonton actress, Norma
- "The Simpsons" voice-over artist Harry ___
- "Escape" co-star, 1940
- Woolgatherer?
- Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)
- Clip-joint actress?
- Oscar winner in "The Divorcée"
- Actress Norma
- Actress or metalworker
- Norma or Moira
- One fleecing his subjects?
- One barely attends to the flock
- Southern judge maybe — a wool-cutter
- Football broadcaster beginning to stultify listener
- He removes coats - hers are worn
- Fleece gatherer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloth \Cloth\ (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (kl[o^][th]z; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan. kl[ae]de, cloth, Sw. kl["a]de, G. kleid garment, dress.]
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
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The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread.
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The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth?
--Macaulay.The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom.
--I. Taylor.Body cloth. See under Body.
Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold.
Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails.
Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth
shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.
Wiktionary
n. A person employed to remove the wool from sheep using shears.
Wikipedia
A shearer is someone who shears, such as a cloth shearer, or a sheep shearer. Origins of the name include from near Bergen in Norway 1600s [Sweden of that period] as Skea (pronounced "Skeg" meaning "beard") and Heddle (meaning market place) as migrated to The Orkney Islands where the name 'Shearer' is found in Church marriage records of the time and as quite prolific for the overall population. Members of those family Shearer migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century and represents the highest concentration of nation for the name globally
Additionally, Shearer is a surname:
Usage examples of "shearer".
At a second look it would be noticed that he wore a silk shirt, which is only done by jackeroos and very flash shearers.
Where the farmer works with the lumpers and the drover drives a dray, And the shearer on Garden Island is shifting a hill to-day.
Which reminds me of an incident in the mateship of Bob Lucas and Jim Barnes, professional shearers, west of the Darling River.
The thirty shearers, running into the nearest pen, dragged each his sheep into the shed, in a twinkling of an eye had the creature between his knees, helpless, immovable, and the sharp sound of the shears set in.
Station, and the boss happened to want a rouseabout to pick up wool and sweep the floor for the shearers.
Thus it came that after the little affair on Barcoo racecourse, Red Dempsey, the shearer, who had seconded Spider Ryan, nearly came to blows with Bluey Cavanagh, prospector and ex-prize-fighter who had seconded Brand.
Another oafish Irish shearer, or a clodhopping yokel from some Wahine dairy farm?
In February MOM premiered Broadway Melody a huge box-office success followed by Hollywood Revue of 1929, offering such stars as Marie Dressier, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Laurel and Hardy and Joan Crawford.
Thus, a ewe unresistant before her shearers would picture a willing submission, confirming what we have already seen in Philippians chapter two.
He was well known in Bourke and to many shearers who came through the great dry scrubs from hundreds of miles round.
Plant costs nothing, improvements nothing--no woolshed is needed, there are no shearers to pay, no carriage to market, as the bullock walks himself down to his own doom.
They were met by a Colonel Shearer, who commanded a Special Forces antiterrorist unit that had already been called to alert and was standing by.
Still I see the shearers drinking at the township in the scrub, And the army praying nightly at the door of every pub, And the girls who flirt and giggle with the bushmen from the west -- But the memory of Sweeney overshadows all the rest.
Where the drovers and the shearers and the bushmen and the rest Never reach the Eldorado of the poets of the West.
There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.