Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Acariasis of sheep; specifically, the common sheep-scab, a disease due to mites (Psoroptes communis) which live on the skin and cause a formation of scab with fall of the wool.
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Examples
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There was a lot of dipping for sheep-scab on the Marsh that August, and it soon became known that several of Joanna
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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"But we were dipping for sheep-scab -- that takes something stronger than
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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