Definitions
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- noun UK, New Zealand, Australia A
sheep farm .
Etymologies
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From sheep + run ("animal enclosure; place where something can run").
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Examples
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Therefore it was arranged that after they had rested they would proceed by gentle stages towards the Mount Hopeless sheeprun.
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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So Jimmy has a good wash to sober him, straps his blanket and his billy to his back, and rides off through the bush to the sheeprun, where he has another year of sobriety, terminating in another month of intoxication.
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So Jimmy has a good wash to sober him, straps his blanket and his billy to his back, and rides off through the bush to the sheeprun, where he has another year of sobriety, terminating in another month of intoxication.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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