(in sheep shearing) a table on which newly shorn fleeces are trimmed.
they were busy sweeping the tailings and picking up the last of the wool tufts on the skirting table
Example sentencesExamples
- The force used to throw the fleece should only be enough to carry the neck end to the far end of the skirting table.
- While working on a skirting table, most growers easily pick out the quality fleeces and the less valuable.
- The best way to do this is to spread the fleece out, with the outside up and the inside down, on a skirting table.
- Carry the shorn fleece away and throw it onto the skirting table.
- He tosses a fleece onto the skirting table at a shearing.