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ˈsheep-walk
A tract of grass-land used for pasturing sheep.
1586Harrison England ii. xix. i. 205/2 Townes pulled downe for sheepe-walks. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 431 A field, Part arable and tilth,..the other part sheep-walks and foulds. 1784Cowper Task vi. 111 Sheep-walks populous with bleating lambs. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxviii, The dales..Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. 1886C. Scott Sheep-farming 122 A study of the botany and geology of a sheep-walk is one of the first steps to successful herding.
Hence ˈsheep-walker Austral., a sheep-master.
1885Daily Tel. 20 Nov. (Cass.), The sheep-walkers of Taranaki will find it to their interest to dispose of their produce by way of Auckland. |