Driveshed

Quick meaning: Driveshed is a noun meaning A rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.

Meaning

A rural outbuilding for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.

More Meanings

1. (transportation planning, urban studies) The land area within a defined driving distance of a specified location.

Example Sentences

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 wall.

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 quickly than pedestrians but also because driving is almost effortless compared with walking.

Word Forms

• drivesheds
• drive-shed
• drive shed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drive shed, carthouse, shedrow, shed, hovel, bikeshed.

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