Herdwick
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Herdwick
C19: from obsolete herdwick pasture, sheep farm (see herd ² (sense 1), wick ²); the breed is thought to have originated on the herdwicks of Furness Abbey
Example Sentences
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The Herdwick ewe was trapped on a narrow ledge on the Great Orme, in Conwy county.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2022
He has nearly 150,000 followers, who check for his posts and postcard-perfect videos and photos of his idyllic home in England’s poetic Lake District and the doings of his beloved Herdwick sheep.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
The delightful memoir of Englishman Rebank, AKA the Herdwick Shepherd, who raises sheep for a living in England’s Lake District, as he tends his flock through four seasons of the year.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
They have around 90 Galloways and a few hundred head of Herdwick sheep, the stout-legged Lake District breed.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
The old gentleman, he said, went louping over wet spots and great stones, and scraffling over crags and screes, till you would have thought he was some kin to a Herdwick sheep.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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