Word.ws English Dictionary

shedhands

shedhands is the plural of shedhand.

Meaning of shedhand

Noun

shedhand (plural shedhands)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A worker in a sheep-shearing shed.
    • 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.1950, Graziers' Association of New South Wales, The Graziers′ Annual, page 187

Questions about shedhands

What is shedhands the plural of?
Shedhands is the plural of shedhand.

Words near shedhands in the dictionary

  1. sheddings
  2. Shedds
  3. shedful
  4. shedfuls
  5. shedhand
  6. shedhands
  7. Shediac
  8. shedista
  9. shedistas
  10. shedless
  11. shedlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shedhands (page history and authors); shedhand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shedhands.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shedhands. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.