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ˈsheep-house Now rare.
[Cf. MDu. schaep(s)huus, OHG. scâfhûs (G. schafhaus).]
A covered pen for the housing of sheep.
[c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 105/12 Ouile, sceapahus.] c1410MS. Douce 335 fo. 72 b, Ony house, that ony beest vseth out or go oute at.., that is to say swynhouse, nethous, shephous. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 670/29 Hec barcaria, schepehouse. 1545Brinklow Compl. xx. F j b, A shepehouse and .ij. or .iij. shepardes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 141, I haue seene some sheep houses so framed, as they haue had theyr gates toward the South, and towarde the Easte. 1614J. Taylor (Water P.) Nipping Abuses F 1, Sheapheard swaines to sheephouse driues their sheep. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 100 Where you cannot fold Sheep, to have a Sheep-house to feed them in. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 71 The whole have hay..in the sheep-house, on wet..nights. 1906Macm. Mag. Nov. 63 Och, it's only a wee bit of a sheephouse. |