shearer

IPA: ʃˈɪrɝ

A person employed to remove the wool from animals, such as sheep. using shears.
A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.
An English surname originating as an occupation for a shearer.

Examples of "shearer" in Sentences

You were calling shearer the messiah when he first came in our saviour.
The longwall's cutting tool, called a shearer, was cutting into both coal and sandstone and sparks were flying.
That led to excessive sparking, investigators said, as the cutting tool, which is called a shearer, cut into a sandstone layer in the coal.
When they're functioning, the systems spray water on the longwall's cutting tool, known as a shearer, and along the coal seam as the shearer cuts into it.
"Rock dust," as it's called, is covered by soot from the explosion. bits and sprayers on the longwall mining machine's cutting tool, known as a shearer, did not cause excessive sparking or fail to temper sparks, coal dust and a small ignition.
He went on strike, as they do in this country, and just before the final collapse we had those extraordinary strikes known as the shearer strikes in the interior and the marine strike along the coast; until the business men, the wholesale men, were sworn in as constables and marched day and night with baton and revolver in order to keep life and property secure.