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What is a shearer?

What is a shearer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person employed to remove the wool from sheep using shears.
  2. A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.
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Never did the sheep turn upon her shearer with a more commanding front.
The hide of the animal is taken to a shearer in less than 15 minutes so it does not cool off.
This is a general view of the finishing room looking west, prior to shearer installation.
Having completed his own enforcedly brief education, Mick worked briefly in Sydney and then headed for western New South Wales where he became a shearer.
He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.
Jobs such as fencers, boundary riders, bookkeeper, well sinkers, blacksmith, saddler, cook, teamster, dogger, shearer or cameleer were in great and constant demand.

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