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Shirkers
- noun - a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
Shirking
- verb - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
- avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
- the evasion of work or duty
Shirring
- verb - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs"
- baking shelled eggs
- Verb - In sewing, to shirr (shirring) is to make two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice or yoke.
Shirtier
- adjective - (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
Shirting
- verb - any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts
- put a shirt on
Shore Up
- verb - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
Shorings
- noun - a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- the act of propping up with shores
Shorling
- - The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
Shortage
- noun - an acute insufficiency
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
Shortcut
- noun - a route shorter than the usual one