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The answer SHEARING has 21 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of shearing in various dictionaries:
noun - removing by cutting off or clipping
verb - cut with shears
verb - shear the wool from
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| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew speaks from a farm.) At least once a year, my little friend here needs to have her fleece cut in a process called this |
| The motion of tectonic plates sliding past each other is known as this, like clipping a sheep |
| Shearing description |
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| Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or "sheared", depending upon dialect). The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,001 sheep per day.Sheep are shorn in all seasons, depending on the climate, management requirements and the availability of a woolclasser and shearers. Ewes are normally shorn prior to lambing, but consideration is typically made as to the welfare of the lambs by not shearing during cold climate winters. Shorn sheep tolerate frosts well, but young sheep especially will suffer in cold, wet windy weather (even in cold climate summers). In this event they are shedded for several nights until the weather clears. Some sheep may also be shorn with stud combs which leave more wool on t |