Helen Fisher

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

American Scientist

Ralph Northam

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.

American Politician

Jon Tester

I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

Jason Clarke

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

Australian Actor

Sydney Smith

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

English Clergyman

Robert Herrick

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

English Poet

Tiberius

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Roman Statesman

Robert Plant

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

British Musician

Laurence Sterne

Irish Novelist

Edward Abbey

American Author

Shearing sheep often happens in spring to remove winter fleece.

Seasonal Action

Shearing is a skillful task usually done by experienced farmers or shearers.

Skill Required

Shearing can happen when a material fails suddenly under stress, without warning.

Sudden Breakage

Shearing in mechanical setting often relates to machinery and safety protocols.

Mechanical Context

This type of shear is a technical term used in physics and engineering.

Engineering Term

Shear as a noun involves movement within a material, not external forces.

Internal Movement

Shears are larger and often used for specific tasks unlike regular scissors.

Tool Shape

Different shears exist for different materials like cloth, paper, or hair.

Specialized Use

Such shears are heavy-duty and used in industrial settings for tough materials.

Industrial Cutting

Shearing off can also mean quickly turning away to avoid something.

Avoidance Maneuver

 which means it's clear and it doesn't break down so you have this crystal-clear line down there animals generally can't see it they get snagged up in it it doesn't biodegrade so it's there forever and it's just a real nasty potential hazard we used anything from stainless steel shears to wire cutters

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 as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain. But what exactly does this ingenious approach do to the tumors in question? When several beams of radiation intersect to strike a mass of cancerous cells, their combined force essentially shears the cells’ DNA,

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 knife right up the side of the bottle into the glass lip alright the firm pressure of the knife hitting that weak point is actually all it takes you don't even have to push it that hard and all the pressure in the bottle is just gonna help shear the top straight off so we

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 so the two of them living without running water without electricity are raising their own sheep shearing them spinning the wool and making rugs we got to experience exactly what that whole process looks like hey how long is your family lived in London all their life

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 of jellyfish tendrils down below rare is still the kelvin-helmholtz cloud not a very snappy name needs a rebrand the this looks like a series of breaking waves and it's caused by shearing winds that wind above the cloud layer and

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 in policy arenas right now ranchers on the ground have a serious poaching problem to protect their animals they're tracking down all of the rhinos on their ranches tranquilizing them and shearing down their horns to Nub's

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 Rarer still, the Kelvin–Helmholtz cloud. Not a very snappy name. Needs a rebrand. This looks like a series of breaking waves, and it's caused by shearing winds -- the wind above the cloud layer and below the cloud layer

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 not "You're beautiful." Oh, and character was built by doing chores. When I wasn't mucking out the goat barn, I was shearing sheep, changing tires, scrubbing toilets, volunteering, shoveling snow.

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 by a rousie in the woolshed, and of course there was still someone needed to manage the household and to prepare the food for the shearing gangs. And her mother came to help with that.

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 it's not all peace and love cats are solitary by nature and don't like shearing