shearing shed

noun

1. Also called: woolshed. a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool

Example Sentences

They lost a few livestock, their shearing shed, and all but 30 of their 2,000 acres was burned.

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With tens of thousands of animals descending on a single shearing shed, like another in China Creek, coordination is essential.

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Mr. MacLean, who owns more than 5,000 sheep, shares a shearing shed with seven other families who bought the building from a large ranching conglomerate in the 1950s.

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On a rainy day in February, George spent the morning in the shearing shed wrangling shorn sheep that had accidentally mixed in with the untrimmed ones.

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He is even considering using sheep manure from under his shearing shed as an alternative to peat, which is burned to impart a smoky flavour to the whisky.

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