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Kōrero: Rural language

Blade shearing

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Blade shearing

A shearer uses hand blades (also known as jingling johnnies or tongs) to shear a sheep at Glentanner Station in the Mackenzie Basin. High-country sheep are often still shorn with blades, leaving enough wool to protect them against the cold.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Sarah Ivey

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Farm work and workers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18617/blade-shearing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Dianne Bardsley, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.