Woolgathering activity?

Usage examples of shearing.

In a shearing shed in full swing in a good season it would have been quids, half-quids, casers, and at the lowest half-casers permitted.

The wool from Terran sheep raised on Ferguson grew up to eighteen inches long and was remarkably fine, but the Headman was shearing his citizenry closer than ever they did their sheep.

He told me that, but a short time since, a family had been ruined for having sheared the moustache of a Sclavonian--a crime not nearly so atrocious as the shearing of all my front locks, and that I had only to give him my instructions to begin a criminal suit against the abbe, which would make him tremble.

Bogan went pretty free in Bourke after the shearing before last, and in the end he got mixed up in a very ugly-looking business: he was accused of doing two new-chum jackeroos out of their stuff by some sort of confidence trick.

Birds were coming down out of the half darkness upcountry and shearing away off the edge of the mesa and to the north the lightning stood along the rimlands like burning mandrake.

Tore it off with a shreek, terrible, shuddering bang, and then came a grating sound of shearing metal, exploding in his ears, the Norseman yawing violently to the left.

Then he told of the blows that followed, and of his last that wounded Lozelle, shearing through his mail and felling him as an ox is felled by the butcher: How also, when he sprang forward to kill him, this mighty and brutal man had prayed for mercy, prayed it in the name of Christ and of their own mother, whom as a child he knew in Essex: How he could not slaughter him, being helpless, but turned away, saying that he left him to be dealt with by Al-je-bal, whereupon this traitorous dog sprang up and strove to knife him.

After a while she began puzzling and mentally shearing off his beard and shortening and restyling his hair.

His partner slammed a bootheel into the unsharpened back of the blade, shearing the locking pins.

Inoshiro flexed vis facial actuators experimentally, shearing off mulch and grime.

He shouted out his war-cries and the names of chiefs whom he had slain, and the blows of his awful axe rained straight and true, shearing through everything they fell on.

Orgoch, her black hood shrouding her features, sat on a rickety stool, trying without great success to tease cockleburs from a lapful of wool shearings.

Near by is a cornhouse and a small distillery, and the corrals for sheep shearing are not far off.

A chambermaid at the Clarendon Hotel had convinced her that short locks were all the rage, and of course, Lexia agreed to the shearing with alacrity.

Bridges would then be designed for these selected loads, and the process would be safer in dealing with flooring girders and shearing forces than the assumption of a uniform load.