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Stone sheep
noun
- a wild sheep found in the Yukon and the northern Rocky Mountains
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Stone sheep1
C19: after the US naturalist Andrew Jackson Stone, who first discovered the breed in 1896
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Example Sentences
Consequently he raced furiously at his stone sheep, flourishing a cudgel, crying the shepherd calls.
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