| 单词 | open shed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopen shed open shed n. New Zealand Sheep-shearing a farm or station where shearers are not contracted before the start of shearing but taken on as needed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed wool-shed1846 shed1855 shearing-shed1857 open shed1871 1871 Lady M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters iv. iii. 279 Brown and Wetherby's was an ‘open shed’, where any shearers that came were taken on until there were hands enough. a1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) vii. 169 Clayton was an ‘open shed’, that is, the shearers were not engaged beforehand, but turned up and took their chance of a pen on the advertised starting day. 1986 in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) (at cited word) ‘Do you have open shed or contract shearing?’ ‘I prefer the contract gang, but you have to help your local shearers; some wives are on the table, and we're often on the board too.’ < as lemmas |
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