“This is a general view of the finishing room looking west, prior to shearer installation.”
“The hide of the animal is taken to a shearer in less than 15 minutes so it does not cool off.”
“He argued that the typical Australian frontiersman was not a small, individualist farmer but a shearer or drover, and that his outlook was not individualist but collectivist.”
“Paramedic Clive Shearman was returning to Droitwich from an incident and took a shortcut through the nearby village of Hadzor.”
“Rob Shearman, the man credited with bringing the Daleks back to Doctor Who, was announced as the winner of The Readers' Prize for Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical.”
(engineering) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.