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sheepfold

[ sheep-fohld ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. an enclosure for sheep.


sheepfold

/ ˈʃ¾±Ë±èËŒ´Úəʊ±ô»å /

noun

  1. a pen or enclosure for sheep
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sheepfold1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceapa falda. See sheep, fold 2
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We passed a sheepfold with dry stone walls, a roof of scavenged tree trunks and plastic, and two padlocked doors.

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Almost every morning there was another new lamb in the sheepfold.

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The Angelus rang, its bronze voice pouring through the sheepfold and over the orchard walls in slow, rich waves.

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Already a flight of four had been seen over the southwest shores of Hosk, not alighting but spying out the sheepfolds, barns, and villages.

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That night we lie down in a sheepfold, deep in a pasture.

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