a pen in which farm animals may be caught and temporarily confined; spec. a pen in a shearing shed from which the shearer takes the sheep to be shorn.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing (4) catching pen1826 a pen in which farm animals may be caught and temporarily confined; spec. a pen in a shearing shed from which the shearer takes the sheep to be shorn. sweating-house1832 In Spain, a hut into which sheep are crowded together so as to sweat, in order to soften the wool for shearing. counting-out pen1874 transitive and intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To count the number of sheep as they leave the shearing-shed. So counting-out pen. sweating pen1882 a pen in which sheep are kept (formerly, to sweat so as to soften the wool) before shearing; = holding pen n. at holding, n. compounds 2. |
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