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Ryeland|ˈraɪlənd|
The name of a district in Hereford & Worcester, where the breed was first developed, used attrib. and absol. to designate a sheep belonging to the small, hornless breed so called, which is a good producer of both wool and meat.
[1801J. Powell Let. in Ann. Agric. (1808) XLV. 6 The hardiness of the Ryelanders..is proverbial, as milkers.] 1802J. Somerville Let. 12 Nov. in Facts & Observations relative to Sheep (1803) 10 The same land, which carried forty-five breeding ewes, was immediately stocked with 150 Ryelands in their stead. Ibid. 12 We..sent this Ryeland mutton to market. 1837W. Youatt Sheep vii. 258 The distinguishing breed of sheep in Herefordshire is the Ryeland, so called from a district in the southern part of the county. Ibid. 260 The Ryeland sheep.. quickly fattens. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xiv. 323 Eleven varieties have been reared in this country of the domesticated sheep..embracing..the Ryeland; South-Down; the Merino. 1912R. Lydekker Sheep & its Cousins v. 101 The modern Ryeland..retained the diminutive proportions of the ancestral breed. Ibid., Ryeland wool was formerly regarded as the finest produced in the British Islands. 1929W. C. Coffey Productive Sheep Husbandry (ed. 2) xxi. 173 The Ryeland originated in Herefordshire, early in the nineteenth century. 1971Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 83/1 Both Suffolk and Ryland [sic] rams have been used this season. |