Shedhand
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A worker in a sheep-shearing shed. Australia, New-Zealand
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From shed + hand.
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