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shed out

British  

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Cortes would often walk from the homestead to Arvia to find his abuelito in the shed out back doing maintenance or puttering at his TV and radio repair business.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

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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