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woolshearer

noun

Etymology

From wool + shearer.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut”
  2. inherited from *skeraną✻
  3. inherited from *skeran✻
  4. inherited from sċieran
  5. inherited from sheren
  6. suffixed as shearer — “shear + er”
  7. compounded as woolshearer — “wool + shearer”

Definitions

  1. A person employed to shear animals to obtain wool.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA