shearing shed

noun

NZ a farm building equipped with power machinery for sheepshearing and equipment for baling wool Also called: woolshed

Words nearby shearing shed

shear zone, sheared, shearer, shearing, shearing gang, shearing shed, shearlegs, shearling, shears, shearwater, sheatfish

Example sentences from the Web for shearing shed

  • There is not another within reach, except at the shearing-shed, and you know where that is.

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls |Various

  • 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?

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls |Various

  • There were a half-dozen Indians lying on the ground outside this shearing-shed at Puente, looking on wistfully.

    Glimpses of Three Coasts |Helen Hunt Jackson

  • At the shearing-shed, Alessandro found his men in confusion and ill-humor.

    Ramona |Helen Hunt Jackson