How To Use Shearing In A Sentence

Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne, shearing and crutching.
I just want to make sure that I'm not mishearing you, or maybe you misspoke.
These gap sizes were reduced, but not eliminated, by shearing the linear cosmid into smaller fragments. BioMed Central - Latest articles
She said the black-faced sheep of the moors will need shearing later this month and farmers face a logistical nightmare of how to shear and dip their livestock if they cannot move them off the moors.
So much humor depends upon homonyms and creative mishearing.

They use electric shears for sheep shearing.
Its application situation on heat shearing blade, guide plate and nodular indefinite chill roll are introduced too.
-- So Paul being to return home after his long absence, I spent the forenoon on the fell shearing, and earned a stone of wool and a windle of rye. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
His great sword clanged down, the edge shearing sparks against the granite stair. Shadowfane
Farmworkers' wives and other family members often supplement the household income by making wreaths and garlands from the clippings removed in the shearing process.
Heated conversations are being held around kitchen tables, in school staffrooms, in cowsheds, and in shearing sheds.
The boundary between the sheeted dykes and pillow lavas is tectonic, and because of shearing, the pillow basalts are locally poorly preserved.
A single shearing interferogram is not sufficient to describe a wavefront.
Treatment for sheep ked is easily applied and is often the most effective following spring shearing.
Shearing was changed from machine to hand held blades which was a much longer process, but left a short coat on the sheep for protection.
When I walked out to the shearing place I no longer felt that it was quite impossible to go on. TESTIMONIES
Baked contacts with host rocks indicate that metamorphism associated with intrusion predates shearing.
He said the shortage of labour in countries such as New Zealand may stem from the fact that, traditionally, there has been an abundance of young men keen to get into shearing, reducing the need to promote the industry.
Canterbury workmates Brian Thomson and Allan Gemmell have won the two blade-shearing places in Shearing Sports New Zealand's team for the 14th Golden Shears World Championships in Wales this year after a dramatic last round of their qualifying series today at the Oxford A and P Show, west of Christchurch. NZ On Screen
A weakening of the connection between the epidermis and dermis also reduces shearing and blistering thresholds, decreases communication between the dermis and epidermis, and reduces microcirculation to the epidermis.
Until recently, sheep shearing and wool processing was the major industry.
The forest provided a large amount of timber for station buildings, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, cottages, and mines such as the Charlton, Moonta, Wallaroo and the Burra.
The farmer is shearing his sheep.
The other sensation Rollses are famous for is called, inelegantly, waftability: a sensation of effortless power, an inimitable feeling of gaining, rising, frictionless, mechanically multiplied self-determination as the driver buries a right foot into the shearing wool carpet. The Face of Green?
Dag the sheep at least seven days before shearing.
Fox, lynx, mink as well as shearing being dyed in strong colours dominate this season, whether it be trimmings on collar and cuffs or luxurious linings.
By the Early Devonian the Iapetus Ocean had closed and was replaced in northern Britain by an essentially transtensional regime with sinistral shearing, and accompanied by major igneous activity.
Only the gentle buzz of the mechanical shears kind, the chatter of 300 onlookers and the odd sheep's bleat could be heard as 33 of the Mid West's best shearers took part in Geraldton first speed shearing competition.
The spread of wage labour in mines, factories, ports, and shearing sheds saw the rise of trade unionism during the 1870s.
In Australia, for example, marsupial herbivores the size of a rhinoceros, kangaroos nearly 10 feet tall, and carnivorous lion-like forms with shearing teeth and retractile claws all roamed the landscape.
They use electric shears for sheep shearing.
Along the wall, they has cleared a swath as wide as a football field, shearing off row after row of houses.
However, technical change did meet resistance from the croppers or shearmen who finished off cloth and were being replaced after 1800 by the gig mill and shearing frame.
The picker-up, and the penner, with the rest of the shearing horde. The Man from Snowy River
One careful handful at a time, he began cutting off his hair, shearing it off as close to his scalp as he could. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
This can be related to shearing along the decollement during underthrusting or to mud diapirism.
We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank.
The trust was offering 50p a fleece, about 10p less than the cost of shearing the sheep, but a lot better than nothing.
There is a sheep and ram saleyard, open days for many things, shearing championships, and cattle shows.
If you see any sheep keds at shearing time this year, plan to treat the animals, preferably before lambing.
Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
Greyling said farmers who prefer shearing their sheep during winter should be ‘extremely careful’ this winter.
Ductile materials undergo considerable plastic tensile or shearing deformation before rupture.
‘I would like to advise farmers who are shearing their sheep and goats to cover their livestock as it looks like we are going to have a cold winter,’ Greyling said.
Near by is a cornhouse and a small distillery, and the corrals for sheep shearing are not far off. Nine Short Essays
By the way, I experience a similar sort of mishearing where I live as people from other parts of Canada and even of my province think that we say the "a" in "father" like "lather" whereas to me it sounds like others say "fother". Languagehat.com: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH.
For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind. The Silence
Moreover, the development of carnassial notches testifies to the shearing capacity of the molars as seen in other palaeoryctids.
Orton-based Tony Hull, of Eden Media, who did Orton's millennium video, took out his camera in all weathers to capture such rites of passage as lambing, shearing and horn burning.
For the next 12 years he published Shearing, a magazine for shearers and shedhands.
The experience is interactive, educational, entertaining and fun as visitors meet the shearers, shedhands, sheep and dogs that work in the shearing and wool industry.
Saturday and slid into a sign stanchion, which ripped through the window line, shearing off most of the roof. I-95 bus crash: Driver did time in '90 manslaughter
The bender element system has been developed to characterize the maximum shearing modulus of soil mass, which provides a reliable and non-destructive method.
The art students, who were here making sculptures, have gone, there is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed.
The diagnostic character for Carnivora is the carnassial pair, the fourth upper premolar and first lower molar, which in this group have been modified as shearing blades for effective slicing of meat.
The shearing board should be kept free of locks and must be swept after each animal is shorn.
Devils, or pillars of sand, vertical and inclined, measuring a thousand feet high, rush over the plain lashing the sand at their base like a sea surging under a furious whirlwind; shearing the grass clean away from the roots, tearing up trees, which are whirled like leaves and sticks in air and sweeping away tents and houses as if they were bits of paper. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The price of wool is still very low and it still hardly covers the cost of shearing the wool off a sheep's back.
Shearing surfaces are shown with a pattern of short grey lines, while broad crushing surfaces are stippled in grey.
The Fawcetts had a sheep dip and we would take ours there, but the shearing was quite a problem for me.
Shows introduced competitions in bush skills, such as wood-chopping, boxing, shearing, and horse-riding.
The subhorizontal or gently northwest-dipping stratification of the nappe stack would rotate during the shearing to form the monoclinal structure.
Discuss in detail the torque characteristics of hoister double-fed cascade adjusting speed system and the designing calculation of starting torque of hoister shearing resistor.
The shearers this year were a band of forty or so Mexicans from Uvalde and other border towns, jollily travelling two hundred miles up the country in charge of a _capitan_ and _grande capitan_ responsible fellows, who had contracted with the ranchmen of the neighborhood to do their shearing. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
I had to help with shearing sheep, picking fruit and hunting vermin.
The abundance of tectonic ironstones along the Bend-Manjeri contact is suggestive of a tectonic contact, although the contact may well have been unconformable before shearing.
They both helped in yarding the sheep, sweeping out the woolshed during shearing (Judy became a proficient shearer), taking morning and afternoon tea to the shearers, and helping drive mobs.
Also, the animal's teeth lack small serrations that appear on many of the meat-shearing, daggerlike teeth of this dinosaur's carnivorous cousins.
Both the quartz and orthoclase contain dust inclusions and crystallites, while the evidences of shearing and crushing are abundant. The Long Labrador Trail
Possibly the most significant of all was Koorana's domination of the Shearing Class, in which a team of four goats are shorn and their fleeces then weighed and graded.
They offered the ‘station’ experience, feeding cattle, shearing sheep, horseback riding, whip cracking, and milking the few milkers they had.
Because of devitalization of tissue, crush injuries are more likely to develop infection than lacerations caused by shearing forces.
citizeness" of Zurich, _embonpoint_ and matronly, married to one of the portly burghers of the city, and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing, wool-spinning, and cheese-making; a mother, surrounded Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
I just want to make sure that I'm not mishearing you, or maybe you misspoke.
A gimmer with a hard g is 'a ewe between the first and second shearing.' Languagehat.com: YAN TAN TETHERA.
At necropsy these infants have severe brain swelling and hypoxic injury but little axonal shearing and only a thin subdural haemorrhage.
The detonation of each charge would result in an intense pressure wave, instantly shearing through the half-inch thick steel hull - like a gigantic cookie cutter.
Shearing won over American audiences with his own style of boogie-woogie, blues and jazz swing which later became known as "The Shearing Sound. Jazz Great George Shearing Dies at 91
To eliminate the danger of shearing, it is therefore preferable to increase the length of the part of the lintel which is held in the wall, allowing a minimum of 20 cm for small openings. Chapter 6
She left Lancashire in the mid-1980s to farm on Islay, hand shearing her own rare breed sheep, spinning their wool into yarn, dyeing it with natural dyes and knitting it.
The testing results about the use of new rail joint was introduced, which include the dynamic flexure stress of upper limb and lower margin of joint bar, shearing stress of horizontally neutral axis.
The flock is moved to fresh pasture and the sheep are dagged to prepare for shearing.
The boiler room still contained the boilermaker's major tools, including three pounding machines, two rolling machines, one shearing machine, two devices for riveting, three forges with bellows, and one anvil.
The faulty shearing machines are repaired, the broken cobbles are mended and the new by-pass built.
Shearing at any one shed only lasts a few weeks in the year; the number of men employed is according to the size of the shed -- from three to five men in the little bough-covered shed of the small "cockatoo," up to a hundred and fifty or two hundred hands all told in the big corrugated iron machine shed of a pastoral company. Children of the Bush
Moore and Rymer think the more likely culprit is talc that forms along veins and fractures in the serpentinite due to the combination of shearing along the fault and a chemical reaction to hydrothermal water circulating through the rock. Soft Powder May Ease Friction Along San Andreas Fault | Impact Lab
Fox, lynx, mink as well as shearing being dyed in strong colours dominate this season, whether it be trimmings on collar and cuffs or luxurious linings.
The film shows scenes of peat cutting, sheep shearing, the collecting of crottle for dying wool, and traditional tweed waulking amongst other scenes of life in detail on the island.
Ideally sheep should be dagged before shearing particularly if they are excessively soiled.
Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.
Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
An entrenched battle exploded between conservationists and planners over whether to cull surplus animals for meat and hides, in addition to shearing them.
Quartz stretching lineations in the shear zones are down-dip and rotated clasts in the agglomerates suggest top-to-the-NE shearing or thrusting of the volcanic series over the Delb Khairkhan melange.
Moncrieff did not consider this a very large shearing, and yet in six days 'time no less than 11,000 sheep were turned away fleeceless. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
Sun-litten Hill and Sharp-shearing Sword, and withal prayed that he might grow of great fame, and like unto the kin of the Volsungs. The Story of the Volsungs
Heated conversations are being held around kitchen tables, in school staffrooms, in cowsheds, and in shearing sheds.
Discuss and compare the various ways stresses can act in a joint, i.e. prestressing, service stress, tensile and compressive stresses as well as shearing stress. 1. Objectives and Contents of the Practical Training in the Techniques of Making Threaded Joints
The areas along fault planes were subjected to a shearing action that produced a pattern of fracturing that is different from the desiccation cracking of a normal septarian concretion.
Cloth manufacture employed a large number of townsmen in its various stages (e.g. shearing, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, fulling, felting, dyeing, cutting).
People breed sheep with the intention of shearing their wool, making clothing out of their skin, and eating their flesh.
The restricted occurrence of silicified and hematized sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of shear zones and ironstones indicates that silica and iron were introduced after deposition during shearing.
Her husband Ian is manhandling sheep through wire fences for crutch shearing, ahead of lambing.
They earned it by putting in strainer posts, and shearing, and drenching, and dagging, and sewing up wool bales. Public Address
Outside the museum is a model of a shearing shed from the colonial period with the blades for shearing and a wool press.
A shearing gang comprises of four shearers, two or three shedhands and a presser.
They both helped in yarding the sheep, sweeping out the woolshed during shearing (Judy became a proficient shearer), taking morning and afternoon tea to the shearers, and helping drive mobs.
(There are prestressing and service stress, which act as tensile or compressive forces, and shearing stress.) 14. 1. Objectives and Contents of the Practical Training in the Techniques of Making Threaded Joints
Visitors meet the shearers, shedhands, sheep and dogs who work in the shearing and wool industries.
Pinching or shearing new growth forces the plant to branch where you cut it and to build up a strong undercarriage that supports heavier top growth later in the season.
With the adoption of pulverization principle of shearing, DG-350 double-refiner disc special type grinding machine is developed to satisfy the requirements of special powder preparation.
They will be shearing the sheep next week.
Strangers are usually discovered at the annual muster for shearing, sorted into a separate pen in the yards where they await collection.
The two sides of the fault remain motionless until the shearing force of the plates 'movement overwhelms the strength of the rock itself. Living on the Fault Line
First there was that workaday stuff used as the skin for thousands of Outback shearing sheds.
Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.
The royal visitors were provided with `a varied programme of kangaroo and emu hunting, buckjumping, with exhibitions of shearing etc.
A decision in the NSW Supreme Court of appeal on the 21 July 2006 has signalled to woolgrowers the importance of placing a guard rail on raised shearing boards.
Nor does it seem to be a case of mishearing, with Perrault writing verre for vair when transcribing an oral account, since vair, a medieval word, was no longer used in his time. Were Cinderella’s glass slippers a mistranslation? « Musings from an overworked translator
Baked contacts with host rocks indicate that metamorphism associated with intrusion predates shearing.
There are also displays about shearing, dairying and the role of women in agriculture.
I picture a time when a person with sheep has profound power, shearing them and spinning their fleeces, and a person who knows how to work a forge is the reason why transportation is possible, horses needing shoes and meaning business -- not just decoration or a vehicle of recreation. Laura Munson: No Black Friday
I thought while looking at this outcrop the last time I stopped, that there might be some faulting or shearing between the whitish layer and the upper, densest part of the welded tuff the reddish gray, bouldery, hard-looking stuff with possible shearing taken up in part in the brighter reddish zone, in which you can still see some compaction foliation. Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1
Similarly wool fleeces are weighed at shearing time to help cull poor wool producers.
The designer should consider the influence of construction joints and foundation joints on the shearing strength.
Apparently, following protests by animal rights activists the sheep shearing competition has been axed from the line-up at the Kent County Show (held in Detling, near Maidstone, each July) this year. Archive 2008-04-01
The mishearing of a word or phrase, an aural malapropism, is referred to as a mondegreen. Times, Sunday Times
Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.
The Fawcetts had a sheep dip and we would take ours there, but the shearing was quite a problem for me.
The knife sliced the paper cleanly and smoothly, shearing off thin ribbons.
The microstructure of Inconel 718 chip is continuous under low cutting speed and serrated under high cutting speed because of adiabatic shearing.
The bender element system has been developed to characterize the maximum shearing modulus of soil mass, which provides a reliable and non-destructive method.
Coming back in the rider raised his sword and brought it down on the stiff wire, shearing it through to prevent the bandits from reeling it in to fire at him a second time.
The band broke up in 1938, and Mr. Shearing went on to a solo career, winning awards for his mastery of the boogie-woogie and stride styles. Pianist Shaped a New Jazz Sound
She was without weight, just an edge shearing through the water. GRACE
It's called "mondegreen," and it means "the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase, such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song. Shawn Amos: "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" & Other Misheard Lyrics
She sought a toehold and felt paintwork flaking; like soaking granite shearing from a Scottish rock face. CHAMELEON
Summer brings its own seasonal tasks such as sheep shearing, silaging and of course, the show season, and farmers work later to take advantage of the long days.
Regular show goers saw the return of the popular sheep show, including a live shearing, and the return of the Tug Of War competition, which was won by Harrogate Young Farmers.
Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.
Consequently, the cost of shearing a sheep sometimes exceeds the price at which the wool can be sold.
Demonstrations and exhibits ranged from electric fencing and sheep showers, to practical shearing and maintenance, and lamb cuts and cookery demonstrations.
The origin of ironstone can be thought of as a layer-by-layer replacement process of primarily stratified rocks that were subjected to shearing.
The farmer is shearing his sheep.
This is not the kind of classroom where you can sit up the back and not be noticed - students are expected to know the entire process in shearing the wool and getting the product ready for market or export.
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Therefore ore controlling mechanism of Sidaogou gold deposit includes Au mobilization, migration passages and accumulation spaces controlled by ductile shearing.
I have come plenty close though, shearing off fletchings and scrapping up the sides of the arrows. Has you or anybody you know ever RobinHooded an arrow? I did with a 25 pound youth when I was only 9 years old.
I'd remind them how he'd come in from the shearing shed for morning tea, smelling of oil and lanolin, teasing and annoying my grandmother as he ate his Sao's.
There are three fracture modes in shearing tests, i. e. , exuviation, shear and crush fractures, with nugget dimensions and shearing loads increasing in turn.
Ann Kemp left Lancashire in the mid-1980s to farm on Islay, hand shearing her own rare breed sheep, spinning their wool into yarn, dyeing it with natural dyes and knitting it.
Since shearing off his medium-length brown locks, Crosby says wearing a beanie is a must during frigid winter days. Newsleader.com -
He found a job of shearing wool from sheep.
The chances of the pawl wearing excessively or shearing off are slim, but the parking brake still helps you avoid the threat of a car rolling away. When to Use the Parking Brake
The dissection is the shearing away of an inner wall of the aorta, most likely caused by an aneurysm or dilation of this section. With Love and Laughter, John Ritter
Shearing had already been done early in the summer; today the clipping wouild be confined to the greasy wool at each ewe's neck and udder. HERE BE DRAGONS
He was climbing out of bed and donning clammy, greasy shearing mocker.

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