Sheep shearing is the process by which the woolen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep’s wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (depending upon dialect, a sheep may be said to have been “shorn”, “sheared” or “shore” (in Australia)). The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day. Electric sheep shearing makes shearing faster and easier.