Sentence example with the word 'shearing'

shearing

Definition n. removing by cutting off or clipping

Last update: July 5, 2015


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If this pressure is not relieved in some way, the train may be derailed either (I) by " climbing " the outer rail, with injury to that rail and, generally, to the corresponding wheel-flanges; (2) by overturning about the outer rail as a hinge, possibly without injury to rails or wheels; or (3) by forcing the outer rail outwards, occasionally to the extent of shearing the spikes that hold it down at the curve, thus spreading or destroying the track.   [Please select]

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SHEARING, reaping, harvest.   [Please select]

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HOG, a young sheep before its first shearing.   [Please select]

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To dream of shearing them, denotes a season of profitable enterprises will shower down upon you.   [Please select]

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Kate and Philip stood and talked where they had been shearing quietly, simply, without apparent interest, and meanwhile the workers discussed them.   [Please select]

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He invented a machine for shearing cloth, and from that earned five hundred dollars in two years.   [Please select]

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The shepherd never has a view of his whole flock at once, except when they are collected for sale or shearing.   [Please select]

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