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mountain sheep
1. [mountain 8 b.] Sheep kept in mountainous regions. Cf. sheep n. 1 b.
1829T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin xi. 141 The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. 1910W. de la Mare Three Mulla-Mulgars 17 The little coat of mountain-sheep's wool. 1961J. Gunston Profit from Sheep i. 11 Great experience of local conditions and practice is the only real guide to the proper management of mountain sheep. 1975Country Life 9 Oct. 942/1 The Castlemartin range..is..a custom-built wintering ground for mountain sheep.
2. U.S. [mountain 9 c.] Either of two species of North American wild sheep, the bighorn, Ovis canadensis, or the Dall sheep, Ovis dalli.
1802in Med. Repository 1803 240 The mountain ram, or sheep, though not very often seen, is to be met with, in considerable numbers, in some parts of the mountains. 1807P. Gass Jrnl. vii. 82 On the top of the highest [bluff] we saw some Mountain sheep, which the natives say are common about the Rocky mountains. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. iii. 69 This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the ‘woolly sheep’ found more to the northward. 1841G. Catlin Lett. on N. Amer. Indians II. 188 Dressed in a beautiful costume of the mountain-sheep skin. 1846R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xiv. 121 In size the mountain sheep is larger than the domestic animal of that name, and its general appearance is in every respect dissimilar—excepting the head and horns. 1918T. Roosevelt in Maine my State (Maine Writers Research Club) (1919) 21 We had a couple of antelope and a yearling mountain sheep. 1947Trail & Timberline Feb. 15/2 We saw moose, bear, caribou, mountain (Dall) sheep, and wolves almost every trip. |