Word Meanings - SHEARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32. 2. A reaper. Jamieson.

SHEARS
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
REAPER
1. One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay. 2. A reaping machine.
SHEARER
1. One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32. 2. A reaper. Jamieson.
BEFORE
1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
HEREINBEFORE
In the preceding part of this .
SHEEP-SHEARER
One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.