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shedhand

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

  • 1950, Graziers' Association of New South Wales, The Graziers′ Annual, page 187, Thus if an employee is engaged as a woolpresser and shedhand he must for the whole of his work be paid at the woolpressers′ weekly rate, since that is higher than the shedhands′ weekly rate.
  • 1980 September 11, Paul Hudson, Technology brings home the wool harvest, New Scientist, page 768, The sheep still have to be mustered and penned in a shed; the shearer still grabs sheep from the pen and shears them; the shedhands remove the fleece and pieces.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From shed + hand.