sheepshearing

English

Etymology

sheep +‎ shearing

Noun

sheepshearing (countable and uncountable, plural sheepshearings)

1. The act of shearing sheep.
   • 1996 May 24, Fred Camper, “Sunday Too Far Away”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Perhaps the best thing about Ken Hannam's 1975 film about sheepshearing in central Australia in 1956 is that he doesn't try to impose too much structure on the action.

   • 1905, William Tuckwell, Horace‎^[2]:

     In another Epode (Epod. ii) he recalls his boyish memories in praise of country life: the vines wedded to poplars in the early spring, after that the sheepshearing, later still the grape-gathering and honey harvest; when winter comes, the hunting of the boar by day, at night the cheery meal with wife and children upon olives, sorrel, mallows, beside the crackling log-piled hearth.

See also

• shepster time