Oscar winner in "The Divorcée"

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.