Shearing shed word search
The hum of the handpieces, a rousie sweeping the board and a gang stopping for smoko. Twenty words from the woolshed, black singlets included.
- Black singlet
- Board
- Classer
- Comb
- Crutching
- Fleece
- Gang
- Golden Shears
- Handpiece
- Lanolin
- Merino
- Pens
- Romney
- Rousie
- Shearer
- Smoko
- Tally
- Wool bale
- Wool press
- Woolshed
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| B | E | E | T | W | F | T | S | I | S | K | I | G | L |
| U | H | R | N | C | S | H | E | A | R | E | R | N | B |
| W | O | O | L | S | H | E | D | T | I | L | S | I | A |
| B | L | A | C | K | S | I | N | G | L | E | T | O | L |
| X | E | A | O | I | H | A | N | D | P | I | E | C | E |
| E | S | I | D | H | R | F | I | G | E | G | N | F | Y |
| C | M | X | H | T | A | L | L | Y | B | O | A | R | D |
| G | O | L | D | E | N | S | H | E | A | R | S | N | F |
| I | K | M | W | O | O | L | P | R | E | S | S | N | G |
| U | O | A | B | A | E | L | F | S | B | C | T | P | E |
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- Black singlet
- Board
- Classer
- Comb
- Crutching
- Fleece
- Gang
- Golden Shears
- Handpiece
- Lanolin
- Merino
- Pens
- Romney
- Rousie
- Shearer
- Smoko
- Tally
- Wool bale
- Wool press
- Woolshed
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About this word search
Shearing is a big part of rural New Zealand. In the woolshed the shearers work on the board with their handpieces, the rousies pick up the fleeces and sweep the floor, and the classer sorts the wool before it goes into the wool press. The Golden Shears in Masterton is the most famous shearing competition in the world, and the black singlet is the classic shearer's uniform.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Golden Shears and black singlet are the longest at twelve letters each. Gang, pens and comb are four letters and hide easily. Wool bale, wool press and woolshed all start with WOOL, so look carefully at what follows. Two-part words have no spaces in the grid.
After the puzzle, see who knows what every word means, especially rousie, crutching and tally. Anyone who has worked in a shed will have a story to go with it.
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