"sheepshearing" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Perhaps the best thing about Ken Hannam's 1975 film about sheepshearing in central Australia in 1956 is that he doesn't try to impose too much structure on the action.",
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          "ref": "1905, William Tuckwell, Horace:",
          "text": "In another Epode (Epod. ii) he recalls his boyish memories in praise of country life: the vines wedded to poplars in the early spring, after that the sheepshearing, later still the grape-gathering and honey harvest; when winter comes, the hunting of the boar by day, at night the cheery meal with wife and children upon olives, sorrel, mallows, beside the crackling log-piled hearth.",
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        "The act of shearing sheep."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "shepster time"
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