sheep-mastern.
A sheep-owner.
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a1520 Vox Populi 66 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 270 Withe to many shepemasters, That of erable grounde make pastures.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings iii. 4 Mesha king of Moab was a sheepe-master . View more context for this quotation
1655 R. Child in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 167 The great Sheep-Masters usually chuse their Sheeps-Walks, or Pastures, on high dry Lands.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. i. iv. 110 The Sheep-Master, who sheers and sells the Fleece.
1837 W. Youatt Sheep 540 Mercurial ointment..in frequent use among sheep-masters as a cure for the scab.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 357/1 Since the British sheep-master has begun..to look more to the profit to be derived from the carcase.
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