reception shed

noun

A shed where goods are received.

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Meanings

nounreception shed (plural reception sheds)

plural reception sheds

  1. A shed where goods are received.

    The courtyard and the great open reception-shed were full of natives coming and going and making preparations for a feast which was to take place at midnight, to which I was invited, but preferred going to bed.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 161
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