sheepcote

[sheep-koht]

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.

sheepcote

/ ˈʃiːpˌkəʊt /

noun

1. another word for sheepfold

Word History and Origins

Origin of sheepcote¹

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

Example Sentences

In the Alps, it’s still present in the shifting styles of church towers, village fountains, sheepcotes, hay barns.

From The New Yorker

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

From Project Gutenberg

No hungry wild beast rangeth in our forest, No tiger or wolf prowleth around the fold: Keep thou from our sheepcotes the tainting Invisible peril of the darkness.

From Project Gutenberg

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in.

From Project Gutenberg

The last are first, the first are last, As angel eyes behold; These from the sheepcote sternly cast, Those welcomed to the fold.

From Project Gutenberg