SHEARER

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• SHEARER (noun)
  The noun SHEARER has 3 senses:

1. Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)

2. a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles

3. a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals

  Familiarity information: SHEARER used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHEARER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Moira Shearer; Shearer

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

dancer; professional dancer; terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shearer" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Derivation:

shear (cut with shears)

shear (cut or cut through with shears)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shearer" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Derivation:

shear (shear the wool from)

 Context examples 

Outside his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep for the shearers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)