1) Actress 2) Actress Norma 3) Ballerina Moira 4) Clip-joint actress 5) Clipper 6) Dancer 7) Dancer Moira 8) Escape co-star, 1940 9) Fleece clipper 10) Fleece gatherer 11) Harry of many voices 12) Moira shearer 13) Norma or moira 14) One working on the sheep 15) Oscar winner Norma 16) Professional dancer 1) Moira 
A shearer is someone who shears, such as a cloth shearer, or a sheep shearer. Origins of the name include from near Bergen in Norway 1600`s [Sweden of that period] as `Skea` [pronounced Skeg meaning beard] and Heddle [meaning market place] as migrated to The Orkney Islands where the name `Shearer` is found in Church marriage records of the ti...
a person who removes wool from a sheep.
• (n.) A reaper. • (n.) One who shears.
(from the article `coal mining`) The plow itself had limited application in British mines, but the power-advanced segmented conveyor became a fundamental part of equipment there, and ... In modern mechanized longwall operations, the coal is cut and loaded onto a face conveyor by continuous longwall miners called shearers or plows (see ....
A mining machine for longwall faces that uses a rotating action to 'shear' the material from the face as it progresses along the face.
Meaning as a surname: A sheep-shearer.
Shear'er noun 1. One who shears. « Like a lamb dumb before his shearer .» Acts viii. 32. 2. A reaper. [ Scot.] Jamieson. 
noun a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals