shearer

See also: Shearer

English

Mining shearers (sense 3) laid out before deployment

Etymology

From shear +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪəɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪɹɚ/
• (US, without the mirror–nearer merger) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪəɹə(ɹ)/, /ˈʃiɹə(ɹ)/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiəɹə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiɹəɹ/
• (East Anglia, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
• Homophone: sharer (cheer–chair merger)

Noun

shearer (plural shearers)

1. A person employed to remove the wool from animals, such as sheep. using shears.
2. A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.
3. A piece of industrial equipment used to grind up long shafts of coal in underground mines.

Derived terms

• gun shearer
• sheepshearer
• woolshearer

Translations

person employed to remove the wool from sheep

• Catalan: tonedor m, esquilador m
• French: tondeur (fr) m
• Kazakh: қырқушы (qyrquşy), күзеуші (küzeuşı)
• Macedonian: стри́гар m (strígar)
• Māori: kaikutikuti
• Romanian: tunzător m
• Spanish: esquilador m
• Turkish: kırkıcı (tr), kırkımcı (tr)

Anagrams

• hearers, rehears, reshare, reshear