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Sheared

adjective

Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers. Synonym: shorn. "Naked as a sheared sheep"

(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length.

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"Sheared" Quotes from Famous Books

... foundling. As we stood there, clasping each other's hands in silence, Storm suddenly fixed his eyes with a savage glare upon one of the bed-posts which contained a tile of porcelain, representing Joseph leaving his garment in the hand of Potiphar's wife; on the post opposite was seen Samson sheared of his glory and Delilah fleeing through the opened door with his seven locks in her hand; a third represented Jezebel being precipitated from a third-story window, and the subject of the fourth I have forgotten. It was a remnant of the not always delicate humor of the seventeenth century. My ...

— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... some good, if it shows only to you lords and Normans that a Saxon people does exist, and will turn when the iron heel is upon its neck. We are taxed, ground, pillaged, plundered,—sheep, maintained to be sheared for your peace or butchered for your war. And now will we have a petition and a charter of our own, Lord Montagu. I speak frankly. I am in thy power; thou canst arrest me, thou canst strike off the head of this revolt. Thou art the king's friend,—wilt thou do so? No, thou and ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the deer as his father had, under the King's charter, for their own sustenance, and gathered the fruits from the garden at Locksley. There were cows to be milked and sheep to be sheared. ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

Words linked to "Sheared" : unsheared, cut, shorn