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shearing shed
noun
- a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool Also calledwoolshed
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With a crew of first-class shearers working in a shearing shed, it is not long until the floor is a sea of wool.
Hadn't she been for the last three years her father's right hand in the store, and in the shearing-shed, too, for that matter?
Thirty or forty years ago every station and every shearing shed had its singer, who knew some of the bush songs.
On one occasion, at a rough shearing-shed, he called his beloved brethren "damned fools" for drinking their cheques.
Nearly sixty thousand sheep are shorn annually in the shearing shed, a few minutes' walk from the hotel.
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