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SHEEPSHEARING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sheepshearing mean?
• SHEEPSHEARING (noun)
The noun SHEEPSHEARING has 3 senses:
1. the time or season when sheep are sheared
2. a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared
Familiarity information: SHEEPSHEARING used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time or season when sheep are sheared
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("sheepshearing" is a kind of...):
season (a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sheepshearing" is a kind of...):
festival; fete (an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Act of shearing sheep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sheepshearing" is a kind of...):
shearing (removing by cutting off or clipping)
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