Sheep-shearing

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• Shearing

  ·noun The act or operation of reaping. II. Shearing ·noun The process of preparing shear steel; til...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sheep

  ·noun ·sg & ·pl A weak, bashful, silly fellow. II. Sheep ·noun ·sg & ·pl Fig.: The people of God, a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sheep

  Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Sheep

  Sheep were an important part of the possessions of the ancient Hebrews and of eastern nations genera...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Shearing-house

  (2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., "house of shepherds binding sheep." R.V., "the shearing-house of the shep...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Sheep-faced

  ·adj Over-bashful; sheepish. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sheep-headed

  ·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sheep-shearer

  ·noun One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sheep-fold

  A strong fenced enclosure for the protection of the sheep gathered within it (Num. 32:24; 1 Chr. 17:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Sheep-gate

  One of the gates of Jerusalem mentioned by Nehemiah (3:1, 32; 12:39). It was in the eastern wall of ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Sheep-market

  Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., "sheep-gate"). The word so rendered is an adjective, and ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• sheep-pest

  n. a common Australian weed, Acama ovina, Cunn., N.O. Rosaceae, found in allthe colonies; so called...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sheep-run

  n. See run. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sheep-sick

  n. Used of pastures exhausted forcarrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,nail-sick, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sheep-wash

  (used as verb) to wash sheep. The word isalso used as a noun, in its ordinary English senses of (1)...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dodded sheep

  sheep without horns. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• neptune's sheep

  Waves breaking into foam, called white horses. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• tormenter of sheep skin

  A drummer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose