shearling
shearling
Definition
shear·ling (-liŋ)
shearling
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- sell: By selling only shearlings, we endeavor to supply livestock which will achieve a long breeding life span.
- breed: Broughton in Furness farmer pays £ 3,517 for a shearling bred by Mark Potter from Matterdale.
- buy: Another top scrapie genotype ram, the ram is out of a gimmer shearling bought for 2,000gns in Skipton to re-stock the Arkle flock.
Modifies a noun
- gimmer: Also reaching the four figure mark at 1,000gns was a shearling gimmer selling in lamb to Baltier King.
- gimmers: Two more shearling gimmers from the Aviemore flock were in the leading prices.
- ram: Messrs Bowman went on to have an overall sale average of £ 747 for 10 shearling rams.
- ewe: The Female trade was fuelled by demand from the commercial sector with shearling ewes being in strong demand up £ 30 on 2000.
- coat: A simple cream wool coat or a fake shearling coat in cream with shaggy lining provided a plainer top layer.
- tup: My purpose was to buy three or four Suffolk shearling tups born in spring 2001.
Noun used with modifier
- gimmer: Topping the gimmer trade was a gimmer shearling from the Ellis Bros, Ilkley Moor.
- genotype: The home-bred scrapie genotype one shearling is by a Belgian ram out of a Belgian ewe.
- mule: September is a busy month with principal sales of mule gimmer shearlings and ewe lambs at most of our sales centers.
- pedigree: The Woodlands Flock was started in 2004 with the purchase of 8 pedigree shearling ewes from Mr Frank Martin's Humby Flock.
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