shedhand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The Board can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work together."
- "Shearers took the best cook and accommodation, refusing to share either with the shedhand."