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shearing shed

noun

  1. a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool Also calledwoolshed
“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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Example Sentences

With a crew of first-class shearers working in a shearing shed, it is not long until the floor is a sea of wool.

Hadn'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?

Thirty or forty years ago every station and every shearing shed had its singer, who knew some of the bush songs.

On one occasion, at a rough shearing-shed, he called his beloved brethren "damned fools" for drinking their cheques.

Nearly sixty thousand sheep are shorn annually in the shearing shed, a few minutes' walk from the hotel.

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