A pen or enclosure for sheep.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen (21) sheepfolda1430 A pen or enclosure for sheep. caul1483 A sheepfold. boughta1522 A sheep-fold; spec. a pen for confining ewes at milking-time. sheep-garth1570 a sheepfold. wool-hurdle1586 a sheep-fold. barkary?1592 A ‘sheep-cote’, a ‘sheep-fold’ (Spelman). (By some associated with bark, n.1, and said to be ‘a tan-house’.) sheep-pen1649 A pen in which to keep sheep. ovil1674 A sheepfold. night-lair1688 an animal's overnight resting place, spec. (Scottish) †among crops belonging to a person other than the animal's owner (obsolete). turnip-tray1805 a hurdle used for penning sheep on turnip-land. sheep-ree1817 a permanent sheepfold. stow1856 dialect. (See quot. 1856.) dead-fold1897 a sheep-pen. sheep-camp1911 (a) North American a camp for sheep herders; (b) Australian and New Zealand, a resting or assembly place of sheep (cf. camp, n.2 4c); (c) South Af… check-pen1922 a special pen in a sheep-yard (see quot. 1950). Subcategories:— materials for (5) — one who pens sheep (1) |
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