sheepwalk

American  

[sheep-wawk] / ˈʃipˌwɔk /

noun

British.

1. a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.

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sheepwalk British  

/ ˈʃiːpˌwɔːk /

noun

1. a tract of land for grazing sheep

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Etymology

Origin of sheepwalk

First recorded in 1580–90; sheep + walk

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Example Sentences

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sheepwalk

No road, not even a sheepwalk, connected his lonely dwelling with the abodes of men.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

But towards the evening Tyrconnel and Lauzun collected all their forces, and marched out of the city by the road leading to that vast sheepwalk which extends over the table land of Kildare.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

New Lanark would still have been a sheepwalk, and Greenock a fishing hamlet.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

It was a very large sheepwalk and much time would be needed to find the sheep on the wide belt of moor.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

The boy's shepherd life carried him to the bleak upland, still famous as a sheepwalk, though a scant herbage scarce veils the whinstone rock.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green

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