sheepshearing
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sheepshearing (countable and uncountable, plural sheepshearings)
- The act of shearing sheep.
- 1996 May 24, Fred Camper, “Sunday Too Far Away”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Perhaps the best thing about Ken Hannam's 1975 film about sheepshearing in central Australia in 1956 is that he doesn't try to impose too much structure on the action.
- 1905, William Tuckwell, Horace[2]:
- In another Epode (Epod. ii) he recalls his boyish memories in praise of country life: the vines wedded to poplars in the early spring, after that the sheepshearing, later still the grape-gathering and honey harvest; when winter comes, the hunting of the boar by day, at night the cheery meal with wife and children upon olives, sorrel, mallows, beside the crackling log-piled hearth.