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  • noun A liquid or lotion used to wash the fleece of sheep.

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Examples

  • So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Unfortunately, I hadn't yet signed out of my sheepdip diary, so I had just completely reset my template html, thus wiping ALL the hard work I'd put into the html layout here!!

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001

  • "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you hadn't bathed in a month, and had doused yourself with sheepdip besides."

    The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

  • With the stink of tar and sheepdip in my nostrils.

    Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

  • So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Weary, shoving three cartridges dexterously into the chambers in place of those just emptied, shouted to Rusty to bring out the "sheepdip."

    The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

  • PaulAllaire: Well sheepdip, every time I give a halfway thorough account of what transpires, they take it down.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2010

  • PaulAllaire: Well sheepdip, every time I give a halfway thorough account of what transpires, they take it down.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2010

  • PaulAllaire: Well sheepdip, every time I give a halfway thorough account of what transpires, they take it down.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2010

  • PaulAllaire: Well sheepdip, every time I give a halfway thorough account of what transpires, they take it down.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2010

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