sheepshearing


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the time or season when sheep are sheared

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a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared

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act of shearing sheep

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And of course, there are the painted records of successful settlements, prosperous farms and homesteads, and the rural businesses of sheepshearing, woolcarding, goldmining and bushranging.
The next day, hit the Sheep Folklife Fair at Roberta McKercher Park in Hailey, where you can see sheepshearing, savor a Basque lamb dinner, and enjoy musical performances by the Scottish-influenced Boise Highlanders.
The sheepshearing, too, is no roisterous romp but a comically desultory affair whose tone is set by Natalia Fomenko's mousy Dorcas.
His investigation of 'Reason and Instinct', too, is ballasted by the experience of sheep farming, as he describes the confusion of a lamb separated from its mother during sheepshearing:
Not surprisingly Hamlet as son, avenger, and moralist is the first character so examined, followed by Hal's contrasting roles of prince and king, then Rosalind, pretending not to be and then to be herself, and finally Perdita, reluctantly acting out her own unrecognized destiny as queen of the sheepshearing.
He hunted small game with his father, helped at the sheepshearing, and took long, solitary walks up to the old stone sheep kraal on the hillside.
His principal works include Niobe (1778), a lyric drama; Fausts Leben dramatisiert (1778; "Faust's Life Dramatized"); Golo und Genoveva (1811); and the idylls Die Schafschur (1775; "The Sheepshearing") and Das Nusskernen (1811; "The Nutcracking").
The sheepshearing ostracon sent to Uriah contains a postscript to Ahutab: "We shall feed on this bread until tomorrow, (Sabbath) eve.
The show's other highlights include livestock classes and parades, showjumping, a dog show, children's attractions, music, a bird of prey display, Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestling competitions, plus more than 350 trade stalls alongside demonstrations of traditional country activities and crafts from sheepshearing to stick-dressing.
A SCOT is celebrating after winning the world sheepshearing championship.
``If you hate the English so much then just p**s off and stop milking our hard earned money to fund your sheepshearing and sheepdog competitions.
OCTOBER 11: There'll be a best beard competition, a sheepshearing show, a craft barn and more at Wasdale Head Show and Shepherd's Meet in Cumbria.
Other highlights were sheepshearing competitions and demonstrations of country skills - including dry stone walling, fly fishing and gundog training.
His idea is to break away from the Tories' English image and use a word like Ymlaen - forward - as their new dragonwaving, hymn-singing, sheepshearing, bara brith-baking slogan.