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shedhand en · NOUN

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Etymology

From shed + hand.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand) A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.
   • The Board can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work together. 1996, John Fowler, Australian Woolclassing, page 23:
   • Shearers took the best cook and accommodation, refusing to share either with the shedhand. 1999, David Palmer, Ross Shanahan, Martin Shanahan, Australian Labour History Reconsidered, page 26:
   • 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.
   • 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.

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