Sheepcote

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small building for sheltering sheep.

    "If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare."

  2. 2
    a pen for sheep wordnet

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foldfoldsheep pensheepfold

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"If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare."

Etymology

From sheep + cote.

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