catching pen

British  

noun

1. a pen adjacent to a shearer's stand containing the sheep ready for shearing

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Example Sentences

It is the last sheep in a catching pen, and consequently a bad one to shear, as the easy ones are picked first.

From Project Gutenberg

Our people were driven back, and—” He said no more, but turned to the door; and Punch strained his eyes in the same direction, as from away to the right, beyond a group of cottages, came a bugle-call, shrill, piercing, then again and again, while Punch started upright with a cry, catching Pen’s arm.

From Project Gutenberg

The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesi- astically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching- pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.

From Project Gutenberg