shedhand

plural shedhands

1. AustraliaNew ZealandA worker in a sheep-shearing shed.

   1980 September 11, Paul Hudson, Technology brings home the wool harvest, New Scientist, 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.

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   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.

   The Board can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work together.

   1996, John Fowler, Australian Woolclassing, page 23

   Shearers took the best cook and accommodation, refusing to share either with the shedhand.

   1999, David Palmer, Ross Shanahan, Martin Shanahan, Australian Labour History Reconsidered, page 26