A building in which sheep are shorn and the wool is processed and packed.
on the days when we weren't mustering, we worked in the shearing shed
Example sentencesExamples
- Shearing sheds stand abandoned most of the time.
- There is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed.
- There was a wild dog under the shearing shed.
- The old shearing shed across the track continues to battle the ravages of time.
- One great advance was the use of electricity in the shearing shed instead of the noisy motor.
- The building of shearing sheds would boost wool growing.
- The plant in the shearing sheds was powered by petrol engines.
- Through the window, the old shearing shed stands in the distance.
- She quickly learned not to wear high heels in a shearing shed.
- Outside the museum is a model of a shearing shed from the colonial period.