Definitionadj. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
Last update: September 1, 2015
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Occasionally serpentines become sheared without yielding talcose minerals; they are then known as serpentine-schist and antigoriteschist, the latter being tough leek-green rocks, more or less transparent. [Please select]
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Then, too, they sometimes get small cuts while they are being sheared and the lime and sulphur makes the bruises smart. [Please select]
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In the spring bands of traveling shearers came from ranch to ranch and sheared the flocks for so much a day. [Please select]
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The thrust had gone deep; it had sheared through the specious arguments he had been weaving. [Please select]
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The lambs appear in the morning and in the evening with luminous wool; they are sheared during the night. [Please select]
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The stroke of the sword sheared away some of the shield, but the blade broke in Sigurd's hands. [Please select]
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He struck, and the sword cut through the shield and sheared through the anvil, cutting away its iron horn. [Please select]
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The remnant of the hair, and the gashes in the skin, nearly resemble the sheared pelt of beaver. [Please select]
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His beak closed upon the exposed half of the turtle's head, and slowly, inexorably, sheared it clean off just behind the eyes. [Please select]
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The sheared hair had dried in the night, tumbling into a hundred golden ringlets. [Please select]
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Colonel Kane says that he saw a piece of cloth, the wool for which was sheared, dyed, spun, and woven, during the march. [Please select]
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