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A wether sheep between one and two years old.

• SHEEPSHEARER
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• Sheep's-eye
  A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
• YEARSPURCHASE
  The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
• Sheep's-foot
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• Sheepshank
  A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
• Sheepshead
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
• Sheep-shearer
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• Sheepbiter
  One who practices petty thefts.
• Sheepsplit
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

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