(Australia, New Zealand) A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.
(Australia, New Zealand) A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.
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(New Zealand) A person who keeps sheep pens filled with fresh unshorn sheep in a shearing shed as shearers remove other animals to be shorn.
(NZ, transitive) To move (sheep who have lambed) to better pasture.
(Australia) A person employed to work on a cattle station.
(UK, New Zealand, Australia) A sheep farm.
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(AU, shearing) The slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.