Sheepcote
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a pen for sheep wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"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.