Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
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- noun Alternative form of
sheepcote .
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Examples
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At the side farthest from the town, close under a bluff, there was an extensive marah, or sheepcot, ages old.
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A sheepcot of the church ', said a contemporary ballad.
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The kindly shepherd of the East carries his lambs in his arms to the sheepcot, but the older sheep pass into the fold under his compelling rod.
Retrospection and Introspection Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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