Sheeprun

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sheep farm. Australia, New-Zealand, UK

    "1900, William Bulfin, Tales of the Pampas, quoted in 2003, Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, 63, Over the richest sheepruns in the province of Buenos Ayres you may gallop during every hour of the summer without crossing a single rood of land that is not owned by some son of the Emerald Isle."

  2. 2
    farm devoted to raising sheep wordnet

Synonyms

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sheepwalksheepwalk

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"1900, William Bulfin, Tales of the Pampas, quoted in 2003, Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, 63, Over the richest sheepruns in the province of Buenos Ayres you may gallop during every hour of the summer without crossing a single rood of land that is not owned by some son of the Emerald Isle."

Etymology

From sheep + run (“animal enclosure; place where something can run”).

Related phrases

running of sheep

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