woolshed
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of woolshed
Example Sentences
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The dining-room or woolshed is made to look as devotional as possible.
From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)
In ten minutes the vast woolshed, lately echoing with the ceaseless click of the shears, the jests, the songs, the oaths of the rude congregation, was silent and deserted.
From Shearing in the Riverina by Boldrewood, Rolf
The woolshed, the washpen, and all the huts connected with them are lone and voiceless as caravanserais in a city of the plague.
From Shearing in the Riverina by Boldrewood, Rolf
The body of the woolshed, floored with battens placed half an inch apart, is filled with the woolly victims.
From Shearing in the Riverina by Boldrewood, Rolf
A saddle-strap was in one hand, his Sunday clothes, tied up in a handkerchief, in the other, and his presence made the room smell just like a woolshed.
From On Our Selection by Rudd, Steele
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