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sheepcote
[sheep-koht]
noun
a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
sheepcote
/ ˈʃːˌəʊ /
noun
another word for sheepfold
Word History and Origins
Origin of sheepcote1
Example Sentences
In the Alps, it’s still present in the shifting styles of church towers, village fountains, sheepcotes, hay barns.
In ale about the carriage of peas to the sheepcote iv d ob.
No hungry wild beast rangeth in our forest, No tiger or wolf prowleth around the fold: Keep thou from our sheepcotes the tainting Invisible peril of the darkness.
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in.
The last are first, the first are last, As angel eyes behold; These from the sheepcote sternly cast, Those welcomed to the fold.
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