Word Meanings - SHEEP-SHEARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of shearing sheep.

• 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.
• Sheepberry
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• Sheepbite
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
• Sheepskin
  The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
• 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.
• Sheepcote
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
• SHEARSTEEL
  See under Shear.
• Sheep-faced
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• SHEEPCOTSHEEPCOTE
  A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.

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