sheepcote

American  

[sheep-koht] / ˈʃipˌkoʊt /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.

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sheepcote British  

/ ˈʃiːpˌkəʊt /

noun

1. another word for sheepfold

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Etymology

Origin of sheepcote

1375–1425; late Middle English. See sheep, cote ¹

Example Sentences

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sheepcote

Helen's features would not have fired a sheepcote: the charm that lighted them blotted out a city.

From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford

In ale about the carriage of peas to the sheepcote iv d ob.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

In good spirits the boys returned to the sheepcote.

From The Three Comrades by Royova, Kristina

Still sounds toward me float; I hear the bird's small note, Sheep from the far sheepcote, And lowing steers.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Now therefore so shalt thou say unto My servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel: 9.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander