Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shed for storage at a railroad-station or on a dock; a dock-ware house.
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Examples
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								On the opposite side of the approach was David Crumplin, walking toward the goods-shed of the little station, and followed closely by the redoubtable Grip. 
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								The rest of Kijabe is composed of four other houses, the goods-shed, an open-faced Indian booth, the post-office, and the water-tank. 
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								Captain Tobias called up the porters, and after consultation it was decided to convert the goods-shed into a cloak-room for housing the bulk of his luggage, but to send on his sea-chest and the birdcage by wheelbarrow to his lodgings. Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903 
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								"My dear Major, I never knew you really satisfied and happy but once, and that was when we had fifty men down with dysentery and fever in a tin-roofed Railway goods-shed, and a hundred and seventy more under leaky canvas, and you were out of chlorodyne and quinine, and could get no milk." The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897 
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								However, though they swore and grumbled at the weight of it, they never suspected that a living child was inside it, and they carried it out on to the platform and set it down under the roof of the goods-shed. The N�rnberg Stove 1892 
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								They are coming in at the rate of seven hundred a day, and are laid on straw in an immense goods-shed. My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890 
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								However, though they swore and grumbled at the weight of it, they never suspected that a living child was inside it, and they carried it out on to the platform and set it down under the roof of the goods-shed. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880 
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								However, though they swore and grumbled at the weight of it, they never suspected that a living child was inside it, and they carried it out on to the platform and set it down under the roof of the goods-shed. The Nürnberg Stove 1839-1908 Ouida 1873 
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								In carrying out his plans he went round the corner of a house, from which point of view he observed a goods train standing near a goods-shed with an engine attached. The Iron Horse 1859 
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								As the fireman came out of the neighbouring goods-shed at that moment, Mr Sharp ordered the driver to mount to his place, and then waiting beside the engine received the fireman with an amiable "Good-night." The Iron Horse 1859 
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