Meaning of shedhand | Babel Free

Definitions

A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.

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.”

“The Board⟳ can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work⟳ together.”

“Shearers took the best cook⟳ and accommodation, refusing to share⟳ either with the shedhand.”

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