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shed out

British

verb

(tr, adverb) to separate off (sheep that have lambed) and move them to better pasture

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Bags of gabbro and similar calcium-bearing silicate rocks fill a shed out back and dot the office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

When that space turned out to be too big for an art studio, the landlord told Stringer he was free to take a look at the shed out back.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

When you think of someone going off-grid—living in a house that is entirely self-sufficient, with no connection to utility companies—you maybe picture some sort of doomsday prepper in a Unabomber shed out in the wilderness.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2022

We used to be a dairy farm and years ago, we decided to build a big shed out the back.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2022

Whatever he can kill he brings home in a sack and skins right away, then hangs in the shed out back.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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