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Sheep-shearing

Sheep-shearing \Sheep"-shear`ing\, n.

  1. Act of shearing sheep.

  2. A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
    --Shak.

Usage examples of "sheep-shearing".

Finally one of them said, in a stunned voice, That's sheep-shearing where yew come from, is it?

She did not bother to pretend that she would regret missing the sheep-shearing contest.