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单词 shearer
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shearern.

Brit. /ˈʃɪərə/, U.S. /ˈʃɪ(ə)rər/
Etymology: < shear v. + -er suffix1.
One who or something which shears.
1. A reaper of standing crops.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower
reapmanOE
reaperOE
mower1225
shearer1318
puller1332
winner1352
repstera1450
harvestman1552
scytheman1577
harvester1589
sickler1638
messor1656
cradler1766
grass mower1779
thraver1813
reapa1825
bagger1844
cradle-man1889
1318–9 in Shropshire Arch. Soc. Trans. (1903) 3rd Ser. 3 51 Rogerus mendepas sherar.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 687/11 Hic messor, a scherer.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. xiii. 30 In the tyme of ripe corn I sal say to the scheraris [etc.].
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 45 Both shearers and binders had neede to bee armed with gloves.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 138 An', hint a' the shearers, wi' Peggy, I bindet the buttles o' grain.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1066 Gloves of sheep-skin made on purpose, called shearer's gloves.
figurative.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxviii. 6 Aungels are sherers þat gedurs gode frute til god.Proverb.1663 ‘P. Stampoy’ Coll. Sc. Prov. 6 An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
2. One who removes the fleece from an animal.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer
clippera1382
shearer1388
sheep-shearer1539
forcer1553
fleecer1612
tiger1865
tomahawker1870
snagger1887
boss of the board1896
gun1898
jingling Johnny1904
barrowman1940
ryebuck shearera1957
barrower1965
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Sam. xxv. 11 The fleischis of beestis, whiche Y haue slayn to my schereris.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiiv Take hede of ye sherers for twitching ye shepe with the sheres.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 40 Shee hath made-me four and twenty Nose-gayes for the shearers . View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Then how to scramble at the shearers feast.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 817 A good shearer shears seventy or eighty sheep in a day.
figurative.1654 M. Coker (title) A whip of Small Cords to scourge Antichrist..Whereunto is added, The Sheerer sheer'd and Casheer'd, the Shaver shav'd, and the Grinder ground.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iv. 166 Being Shepherd of this indigent People, not Shearer merely.
3. One who removes the nap of cloth by the process of shearing. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > one who
shearmanc1275
shearer1473
cloth-shearer?c1530
cropper1711
1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 17 To Sandy Balfoure the scherare, for certane clath schorne be him.
1679 T. Jordan London in Luster 17 Wool-combers, Sheerers, Dressers [etc.].
4. = incisor n. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > front or incisor
fore-toothc1000
cutter1579
shearer1610
shredder1650
incisora1682
incisive1804
incisor tooth1830
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xxvi. 260 The vpper teeth, which are the shearers in the vpper chappe.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse v. vi. 211 The Shearers or Fore-teeth.
5. = shearman n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker involved in shearing metal
bar-cutter1874
shearer?1881
shearman?1881
cropper1921
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 93 Wrought Iron Manufacture..Shearer or Shearman.
6.
a. A machine designed to cut metal, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] > machine
shearer1890
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 60 Drilling-machines, punchers, squeezers, shearers, all of mighty size.
b. A coal-cutting machine that cuts in a vertical plane parallel to the coal face.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > coal-cutting machines
iron man1827
overcutter1946
plough1946
cutter-loader1948
shearer1956
trepanner1956
1956 E. Mason Deputy's Man. I. xviii. 258 Most of the cutter-loading machines use vertical shearers which make a cut perpendicular to the plane of the seam... Disc shearers have picks attached to a vertical wheel rotating on a horizontal shaft.
1971 New Scientist 29 July 260/1 As the shearer cuts its way along the face, coal was automatically loaded on to a conveyor.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Jan. 90/1 By far the most common coal-getting machine in use to-day is known as the shearer.., which removes a slice of coal of about two-thirds of a metre in depth from the face by a revolving drum fitted with tungsten carbide tipped picks.
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