driveshed
driveshed noun: a rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.
Noun (1)
driveshed (plural drivesheds)
- A rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.
- Near-synonym: carriage house
- He pushes the lawn tractor further out into the rain and angles it off to the side. Gets in the yellow loader and backs it out, turns it around in the gravel in front of the doors and drives it in to where the blade sits on its dolly at the back of the driveshed and points at the chain on the side...2014, Peter Blendell, Jonagold, →ISBN, page 63
- Synonyms:
- carriage house
Noun (2)
driveshed (plural drivesheds)
- The land area within a defined driving distance or time of a specified location.
- Though the exact number or distance (sometimes referred to as a walkshed) may be a subject of debate, and may vary depending on the demographics and motivations of the walkers, one thing is abundantly clear: a driveshed is much large than a walkshed. This is not only because cars move much more...2009, Colin Ellard, You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, →ISBN
Synonyms of driveshed
Forms of driveshed
| plural | drivesheds |
|---|---|
| alternative form | drive-shed |
| alternative form | drive shed |
Origin of driveshed
From drive + shed.
Blend of drive + watershed; by surface analysis, drive + shed.
Questions about driveshed
- What does driveshed mean?
- Driveshed means a rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.
- What part of speech is driveshed?
- Driveshed is a noun.
- What is the plural of driveshed?
- The plural of driveshed is drivesheds.
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