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