shearing shed
NZ a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool: Also called: woolshed
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How to use shearing shed in a sentence
With a crew of first-class shearers working in a shearing shed, it is not long until the floor is a sea of wool.
Textiles | William H. DooleyHadn'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?
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | VariousThirty or forty years ago every station and every shearing shed had its singer, who knew some of the bush songs.
The Old Bush Songs | A. B. PatersonOn one occasion, at a rough shearing-shed, he called his beloved brethren "damned fools" for drinking their cheques.
Children of the Bush | Henry LawsonNearly sixty thousand sheep are shorn annually in the shearing shed, a few minutes' walk from the hotel.
Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway | Effie Price Gladding
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