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sheepcote

[ sheep-koht ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.


sheepcote

/ ˈʃ¾±Ë±èËŒ°ìəʊ³Ù /

noun

  1. another word for sheepfold
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sheepcote1

1375–1425; late Middle English. See sheep, cote 1
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In the Alps, it’s still present in the shifting styles of church towers, village fountains, sheepcotes, hay barns.

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In ale about the carriage of peas to the sheepcote iv d ob.

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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.

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And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in.

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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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