sheepn.
/ʃiːp/, U.S. /ʃip/ 1.
a.
(a) Any animal of the ruminant genus Ovis (sometimes horned), closely allied to the goats; esp. of the widely domesticated species Ovis aries, of which there are many varieties, and which is reared for its flesh, fleece, and skin.The male of the sheep is a ram, the female a ewe, the young a lamb. The flesh of the adult sheep is mutton. The fleece yields wool, the skin is made into leather or parchment, and the intestines are used for the strings of musical instruments (see catgut n.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun]
sheepc825
woollyback1846
monkey1876
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep)
sheepc825
sowthc1175
balle1440
wool-bearer1483
flocklinga1652
ram-sheep1672
fleece1783
jumbuck1824
ovine1890
mae1899
woolly1910
α.
β. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 14 Bebycgendo exin & scipo [Rushw. scip] & culufro.c1300 St. Margarete 39 Hir norice hir sende ofte adai wiþ hire schip afelde.c1310 St. Brendan (Bälz) 136 Þe vairest scep [v.r. scip] þat miȝte be.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6156 Left þai na-thing þat þar was, Schip, ne kow, or [ox,] ne as.c1450 Godstow Reg. 127 Pastur for xl schip.c1450 Godstow Reg. 127 Pastur for a c schype.c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 395 Scabbyd schyppe, apica.a1470 W. Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 75 Oxyn, kyne, and shippe.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 266 The cattell and schip pertening to thair enimyes.1602 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 143 iiij wemen for clippinge the shippe xvjd.1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 70 ‘What ship was it, Horrocks..?’ ‘One of the black-faced Scotch, Sir Pitt.’c825 Vesp. Ps. cxiii. 6 Velut agniovium, swe swelomberu scepa.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xvii 122 Ðæt sceap ðæt ðær scancforad wæs.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 91 On forewerdne morgen ic drife sceap mine to heora læse.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12662 Shepess lamb uss ȝifeþþ millc & flæsh. & blod. & wulle.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Ðet oref þe þis deor waneð beð shep and reðeren, and Get, and swin.
c1275 Old Eng. Misc. 41 Beo þe seopheorde aquold..Þenne scule sone his seop alle beon to-dreued.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 940 A net and a got and a sep.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iv. 2 Abel was a sheepherd of sheep.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 237 Ther was a Schiep,..The which his flees bar al of gold.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3178 Þe angel..bade him þar biside him tak A scepe [Fairf. shepe, Gött. schep, Trin. sheep] his sacrifice to mak.
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. lviii. 221 An hare and a sheppe bene ful gastefull.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 225 Whanne Moyses kepte the schep of Ietro.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 65 Thys inclosyng of pasturys for..schepe.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 137v The champion countrey, breedeth a large, and a great Sheepe.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. 69 If a sheepe be sound.., his eye will be bright.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn viii, in Poems 5 Perhaps their loves, or els their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busie keep.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 79 Verdant grass, the sweet food of the sheep.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iv, in Poems 62 The thickfleecéd sheep from wattled folds.
1859 L. F. Allen New Amer. Farm Bk. 399 The sheep is sometimes employed..at the tread-mill or horizontal wheel, to pump the water, churn the milk, or perform other light domestic work.
1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism 34 Certain mountain varieties of sheep will starve out other mountain varieties.
(b) plural with -s.
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1521 in Visit. Southwell (1891) 119 I will that my sheips be soulde.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 219 Two hot Sheepes marie. Bo. And wherefore not Shipps? View more context for this quotation
1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 504 The skins of other Sheeps [1607 (ed. 1) sheep] newly plucked from their backs.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua at Ship Poor grass when ships cannot grase.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Ship, sheep..Also pl. Ships.
b. With qualifying word denoting the species as African, broad-tailed, Rocky Mountain, wild (see argali n., mouflon n., musmon n.). Also applied to other genera, as †Indian sheep the llama or vicuña (see also Peruvian sheep n. at Peruvian n.1 and adj. Compounds 1b); mountain sheep, the ibex.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > genus Lama (llama)
llama1600
Indian sheep1604
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > genus Vicugna
Indian sheep1604
vicuña1604
vigogne1660
vigonia1834
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > capra ibex (European ibex)
stonebuckc1000
rock-goat1574
eveck1585
stambuck1591
ibex1607
rock-buck1681
steinbock1695
bouquetin1783
mountain sheep1807
stonebuck1855
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xxi. 70 Indian sheepe, the which..do serve them as Asses to beare their burthens.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 102 An Indian Sheepe, out of the region of Peru.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. viii. 158/1 The Arabian broad tailed Sheep.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 68 Vicunnas or Peruvian sheep.
1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 13 Oct. 39 She [sc. Mrs. Roundabout] puts me in mind of my Lord Bantam's Indian sheep, which are obliged to have their monstrous tails trundled along in a go-cart.
1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 22 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 260 Two horns of the animal the French Call the Rock mountain Sheep.
1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 143 The Ibex or mountain sheep.
1818 T. Laurie in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. (1821) 3 308 Remarks..on the Skin of the Rocky Mountain Sheep.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Oveæ The moufflon, or wild sheep of Sardinia and Corsica, and the argali, or wild sheep of India and Siberia.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 102/1 The Rocky Mountain sheep or goat (Haplocerus laniger),..is closely related to the chamois of Europe.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 161 The Yellow Sheep of Mongolia (Procapra gutturosa).
1881 Scribner's Monthly May 1/1 The American big horn, or Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana Cuv.).
c. vegetable sheep: see vegetable sheep n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2.
2. Similative (often passing into figurative) uses.
a. In allusions to: (a) The sheep's timidity, defencelessness, inoffensiveness, tendency to stray and get lost: chiefly in echoes of biblical passages, and sometimes with allusion to sense 4 (b) The fabled assumption by a wolf (or other beast of prey) of the skin of a slaughtered sheep. (c) The division into ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ (saved and lost) at the Last Judgement. Also attributive, as sheep-and-goat. (d) The infection of the whole flock by one sheep. (e) The shearing of sheep; with suggestion of ‘fleecing’ or robbing.black sheep: see the first element.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray > one who > allusively
sheepc825
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(b)c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vii. 15 Ðaðe cymes to Iuh..in wedum scipa Inna-ueard uutedlice sint uulfes..ferende.1573 Tyrie's Refut. in Catholic Tractates 7 Nocht to trow hastelie, that thairbie other thay be lyon or scheip, quhobeit thay weare thair skinnes.1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 157 They [wolves] gang in more secrete wise, And with sheepes clothing doen hem disguise.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 54 Thou Wolfe in Sheepes array. View more context for this quotation(c)c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 33 He setteð ða scip..to suiðrum his.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6136 By þe shepe understand we may Þe gude men þat sal be saved þat day.c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 169 Schepe þat schal be savid schal be on hys riȝt honde.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 371 How the Ebenezerites would stare to find the Socinians and themselves in one flock on the sheep-side of the judgment-seat.] 1849 W. J. Irons Day of Wrath With Thy favour'd sheep O place me.1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iii. 62 The people of the house follow a sort of ‘sheep and goat’ plan, keeping us separate; we, the maiden-lady-some-stay visitors, sit at the upper end of the table, the one-nighters at the other end.1943 J. S. Huxley Evol. Ethics iii. 19 Our ethics will be unrealistic if, after dividing our impulses into sheep and goats, we..transform the goats into scapegoats.1954 N. Coward Future Indefinite iii. ii. 138 I..tried repeatedly to analyse my emotions coldly and clearly; to still my anxieties by segregating them, by separating the sheep from the goats.1962 Listener 15 Mar. 469/2 This ‘sheep and goats’ view, though it may appear plausible, is not to be taken for granted.1978 K. Hudson Jargon of Professions 13 Is the author using it [sc. jargon or propaganda] deliberately as a means of sorting out the sheep from the goats?(d)c960 Æthelwold Rule St. Benet (1885) xxviii. 53 Gif se getreowleasa gewite, he gewite, þylæs þe an adlig sceap ealle heorde besmite.c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 23 A wicke shep may spille al þe flok.c1450 in Aungier Syon (1840) 262 Leste one skabbed schepe infecte al the flokke.c1530 Songs, Carols, etc. (1907) 129 On skabbid shepe infectith all the folde.a1815 W. Hutton Life & Hist. Family (1816) 367 With all these qualifications she was tinctured with a most unaccountable species of paltry pride. Thus one scabbed sheep spoils the flock.1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xviii One scabby sheep infects the flock.(e)142. J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep 491 What is the sheepe to blame in your sight Whan she is shoorn?c1500 God Spede the Plough 35 Thus be we shepe shorne, we may not chese.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Piv Ye blynd giders and pastors quhilk sekis bot the mylk and ye wow of the scheip.1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly 164 Hee is as rich as a new-shorne sheepe.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 121 If I make not this Cheat bring out another, and the sheerers proue sheepe . View more context for this quotation1806 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) II. iii. 89 I will not..be flayed like a sheep for the benefit of some pettifogging lawyer or attorney.1900 R. H. Savage Brought to Bay vi A couple of California mine manipulators going over to London to shear those fat-witted sheep, the British investors.c825 Vesp. Ps. cxviii. 176 Ic duolude swe swe scep ðæt forwearð.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 121 Vre drihten was iled to sleȝe al swa me dede a scep.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 775 Swa þe rimie wulf. þane he wule on scheapen [c1300 Otho seep] scaðe-werc wrchen.
c1275 Passion our Lord 5 in Old Eng. Misc. 37 Al volk wes to dreued so schep beoþ in þe wolde.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13897 As þe wolf chaseþ þe schep, He dide þe Romayns by-fore hym lep.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. C Subtilly lyke a shepe thought I, I shall Cut my cote after my cloth.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .ii We haue erred and strayed from thy wayes, lyke loste shepe.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 737 The Duke..deliuered the Erle to the Ambassadors,..not thinking that he deliuered the shepe to the woolfe.
1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 67 The rout of soldjers of that regiment presst all of a heape like sheep.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xvi. 169 Outside his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep for the shearers.
1850 H. Bonar Songs for Wilderness (ed. 3) 3 I was a wand'ring sheep, I did not love the fold.
1862 F. W. Faber Hymns v. 289 Souls of men! why will ye scatter Like a crowd of frightened sheep?
b. lost sheep: one who has strayed from the right way. (Cf. 2a (a) and see lost adj. 2.)
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray > one who goes astray
strayer1519
by-walker1549
swerver1598
stray1605
lost sheep1611
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. l. 6 My people hath bene lost sheepe . View more context for this quotation
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xviii. 106 These fiue (lost sheepe) the children of perdition,..who lay lurking in desart..places.
1645 T. Vane (title) A lost sheepe retvrned home: or, the motives of the conversion to the catholike faith, of Thomas Vane.
1851 J. Ruskin Sheepfolds 12 There are certain signs by which Christ's sheep may be guessed at. Not by their being in any definite Fold—for many are lost sheep at times: but by their sheep-like behaviour.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 13 Ye sexless eunuchs,..Lost sheep that err rebellious to the lady Dindymene.
c. black sheep: see as main entry.
3.
a. Proverbial phrases. one might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb and variants to lose the sheep for a ha'porth of tar: see halfpennyworth n. Phrases.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hiii He loueth wel sheeps flesh, that wets his bred in wul.
c1550 Six Ballads (Percy Soc.) 4 The blacke shepe is a perylous beast.
a1584 T. Proctor in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 400 As soone for to be sold To market cums the yonge sheepe as the olde.
1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iv. xx. 90 Till now I thought the prouerbe did but iest, Which said a blacke sheepe was a biting beast.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. vii. 40 As soone goes the yong lambe to the roste, as the olde sheepe.
1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 350 As good be hang'd for an old sheep as a young lamb.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. x. 60 In for the lamb, as the saying is, in for the sheep.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. ii. 58 We may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb..I vote that we do not go on board.
1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xlvii ‘Just as good for a sheep as a lamb’, as the proverb says.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers x. 259 It seemed as if she did not like being discovered in her home circumstances... But she might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb. She invited him out of the mausoleum of a parlour into the kitchen.
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xv. 133 Letty..decided that she might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb and make the most of her meal.
b. to keep sheep by moonlight: see quot. 1896.
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1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad ix. 16 Lads' I did not know, That shepherded the moonlit sheep A hundred years ago. [Note p. 15] Hanging in chains was called keeping sheep by moonlight.
c. to return to our sheep [after French revenons à nos moutons] : to return to the matter in hand. (Cf. mutton n. Phrases 2, revenons à nos moutons phr.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > pay attention [phrase]
to nim or take yemec1175
to bow the eyec1230
give tenta1300
to take (nim) heed13..
to have respect toa1398
to have an eye to (also in)1425
to give, pay heed (to)?1504
to make reckoning of1525
to take notice1573
to take into consideration1652
to return to our sheep1871
to sit up and take notice1886
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > again > work or business
resume1796
to return to our sheep1871
1871 Athenæum 12 Aug. 199 ‘Balaustion's Adventure,’—that we may get to our sheep at last,—is the amber in which Mr. Browning has embalmed the ‘Alcestis’.
1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 118 Let us go back to our sheep, which are not all black, thank goodness!
1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 431/2 But to return to my sheep.
d. to count sheep: as a soporific, to count imaginary sheep jumping over an obstacle one by one.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep > count sheep
to count sheep1920
1854 S. Smith Way down East xi. 273 He shut his eyes with all his might, and tried to think of sheep jumping over a wall.]
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon iii. i. 128 I couldn't get to sleep to save my soul. I counted ten million sheep if I counted one.
a1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 27 When restless nights distract her brain from sleep She may as well write poetry, as count sheep.
1977 H. Pitcher When Miss Emmie was in Russia x. 75 Nanny..was trying her hardest to persuade Irina to go to sleep. Did you know that if you count sheep, it is watching the sheep jump that sends you off?
4. figurative. In biblical and religious language, applied (as collective plural) to persons, in expressed or implied correlation with shepherd. With varying specific reference: said, e.g., of Israel, the Church, or humankind generally, viewed as under the guidance and protection of God, and as owing obedience to Him; of those who are led by Christ as the Good Shepherd (John x. 1–16); and of those who are under the charge of a spiritual pastor, or who are viewed as needing to be spiritually fed or directed. Hence occasionally in singular.
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society > faith > church government > laity > [noun]
sheepc825
herdc1000
layc1330
flocka1340
fold1340
clergy1382
temporalty1387
lay-feec1425
temporalityc1485
laity?1541
lealty1548
people1549
layperson1972
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person > collective
sheepc825
chosenc1200
heritagea1340
markedc1350
Israel1382
peculiar peoplea1513
forechosen1577
peculiar1610
election1611
predestinated1626
peculiar racea1657
c825 Vesp. Ps. lxxviii. 13 We soðlice folc ðin & scep eowdes ðines.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John x. 16 Oðro scip ic hafo ða ne sint from ðissum plette.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 24 Ne eom ic asend buton to þam sceapum þe forwurdon of israhela huse.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3760 Forr þatt he wollde sammnenn. An flocc off menn till cristenn dom..Þatt sholldenn wurrþenn hise shep.
c1220 Bestiary 49 He is hirde, we ben sep.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27451 Sere biscop, ta god kepe, Þe wolf es cummen amang þi scepe.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 32 No curat owiþ to leue his schepe vnkept among þe wolues of helle.
c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 22 On alle maner sal þabbes entirmete hir Al maner of sentence at muster til hir sep, þat nan be tint.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 508 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yiue By his clennesse, how þt his sheep sholde lyue.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 94 Christis sillie scheip and sobir flok.
1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 58 In thy book record their groanes Who were thy Sheep.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 891 All pastors are alike To wand'ring sheep, resolv'd to follow none.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 332 It would ill become me, for the sake of lucre, to leave my sheep in the wilderness.
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve ii. 9 I..found myself..in Zion Chapel Meeting,..Which, calling its flock to their special clover, Found them assembled and one sheep over.
5. † b. Sheep and shrew are contrasted as types of wives of opposite characters (see quots.).
a. A person who is as stupid, timid, or poor-spirited as a sheep.
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the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid
sheep1542
trembler1552
sheep's hearta1616
mouse1839
feartie1923
Nervous Nellie1925
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]
boinarda1300
daffc1325
goky1377
nicea1393
unwiseman1400
totc1425
alphinc1440
dawc1500
hoddypeak1500
dawpatea1529
hoddypolla1529
noddy1534
kimec1535
coxcomb1542
sheep1542
sheep's head1542
goose1547
dawcock1556
nodgecock1566
peak-goosea1568
hottie tottie?c1570
Tom Towly1582
wittol1588
goose-cap1589
nodgecomb1592
ninny1593
chicken1600
fopdoodle16..
hoddy-noddy1600
hoddy-doddy1601
peagoose1606
fopster1607
nazold1607
nupson1607
wigeon1607
fondrel1613
simpleton1639
pigwidgeon1640
simpletonian1652
Tony1654
nizy1673
Simple Simon?1673
Tom Farthing1674
totty-head1680
cockcomb1684
cod1699
nikin1699
sap-pate1699
simpkin1699
mackninnya1706
gilly-gaupus?1719
noodle1720
sapskull1735
gobbin?1746
Judy1781
zanya1784
spoony1795
sap-head1798
spoon1799
gomerel1814
sap1815
neddy1818
milestone1819
sunket1823
sunketa1825
gawp1825
gawpy1825
gawpus1826
Tomnoddy1826
Sammy1828
tammie norie1828
Tommy1828
gom1834
noodlehead1835
nowmun1854
gum-sucker1855
flat-head1862
peggy1869
noodledum1883
jay1884
toot1888
peanut head1891
simp1903
sappyhead1922
Arkie1927
putz1928
steamer1932
jerk-off1939
drongo1942
galah1945
Charley1946
nong-nong1959
mouth-breather1979
twonk1981
the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid > timid or stupid person
sheep1542
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s)
coward?a1289
hen-hearta1450
staniel?a1500
pigeon?1571
cow1581
quake-breech1584
cow-baby1594
custard1598
chicken heart1602
nidget1605
hen?1613
faintling1614
white-liver1614
chickena1616
quake-buttocka1627
skitterbrooka1652
dunghill1761
cow-heart1768
shy-cock1768
fugie1777
slag1788
man of chaff1799
fainter1826
possum1833
cowardy, cowardy, custard1836
sheep1840
white feather1857
funk1859
funkstick1860
lily-liver1860
faint-heart1870
willy boy1895
blert1905
squib1908
fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23
manso1912
feartie1923
yellowbelly1927
chicken liver1930
boneless wonder1931
scaredy-cat1933
sook1933
pantywaist1935
punk1939
ringtail1941
chickenshit1945
candy-ass1953
pansy-ass1963
unbrave1981
bottler1994
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 109 Those persones, who wer sely poore solles..wer euen then..by a commen prouerbe called sheepes heddes, or sheepe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 104 I know he would not be a Wolfe, But that he sees the Romans are but Sheepe . View more context for this quotation
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. i. 15 You..That understand so many Languages, turn over so many Volumes, and yet are but a sheep when all is done.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xx. 205 They've got a man for mate of that ship, and not a bloody sheep about decks!
1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. lxxiii Bullied and ordered about, the Englishman obeys like a sheep.
1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 72 The way you fellows scuttle backward and forward from one mind to another whenever Joe holds up his finger is disgusting. This is a Cabinet of sheep.
1948 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite xiii. 226 She looks on you as a..poor, spineless sheep who can't say boo to a goose.
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 66 Now be she lambe or be shee eaw, Giue me the sheepe, take thou the shreaw.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iii. i. sig. Fv–Fii It is an olde saying, one shrew is worth two sheep.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 129 They noted that although the Virgin were somewhat shrewish at the first, yet in time shee might become a sheepe.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. ix. 11 It is better to marry a Shrew then a Sheep; for though Silence be the dumb Orator of beuty,..yet a phlegmatic dull Wife is fulsom and fastidious.
1661 Tom Tyler & his Wife 26 To marrie a sheep, to marrie a shrow.
c. A semi at Aberdeen university.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities
son?c1550
Bibler1569
round cap1572
batteler1604
fellow commoner1614
gentleman-commoner1614
primar1642
Bible-clerk1650
Harry-Sopha1661
hodman1677
nobleman1682
seconder1684
grueller1691
ternar1698
tuft1755
red gowna1774
ten-year-man1816
prick-bill1818
bear1828
martinet1831
sheep1865
trotter1883
skiver1884
hall-reader1886
sign-off1902
night climber1937
techie1969
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes II. i. 5 A certain semi (second-classman, or more popularly sheep).
6. elliptical. (For sheep leather; cf. calf-leather at calf n.1 2, kid-leather n. at kid n.1 Compounds 1a.) Leather made from the skin of the sheep: used in bookbinding.The term has gone out of use in the bookbinding trade, the material being known under other names, e.g. roan, basil.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather
roan1383
Turkey leather1655
sheep1705
Turkey1715
Russia1724
rough calf1730
law1738
mottled calf1857
pastegrain1880
Rutland1894
Cambridge calf1895
Niger morocco1898
Niger1946
1705 London Gaz. No. 4187/4 Price bound in Sheep 18d.
1716 A. Pope Further Acct. E. Curll 9 As to the Report of my poor Husband's stealing a Calf, it is really groundless, for he always binds in Sheep.
1836 J. R. Smith's Catal. Bks. Feb. 9/1 Fernandez's Spanish Grammar, 8vo. sheep, 2s.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 90 Sheep may be had white and of all colours.
1911 Tregaskis' Catal. Bks. No. 708. 53 One volume in old sheep, the other in calf.
7. Passing into adj.
a. (in early use also sheep's; cf. sheep's eyes n.) Sheep-like, sheepish.
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the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [adjective]
arghc885
unboldc897
bletheOE
feyOE
frightfula1325
fearedc1330
fearfulc1374
ferdfula1382
palea1393
ferdya1400
ghastful1422
tremblingc1430
timorousc1450
cremeuse1477
craintive1490
cocklea1500
sheepish?1518
awfula1522
meticulousc1540
timidc1550
sheepa1556
tremebundc1560
timorsomec1600
tremulous1611
pigeon-hearteda1625
affrightful1631
formidolous1656
pavid1656
timidous1658
unsupported1694
tender-nosed1700
scary1773
pippin-hearted1809
kitten-hearted1831
funky1835
misventurous1849
milksoppish1852
tender-footed1854
fearsome1863
scare1885
milksoppy1886
milksopping1888
cotton wool1909
the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [adjective] > sheepish
sheepa1556
downlookinga1626
downlooked1636
sheepish1693
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > resembling or of the form of sheep
sheepishc1200
sheepy1532
sheepa1556
sheep-like1596
oviform1877
criocephalous1882
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. vi. sig. G.ijv Hither will he repaire with a sheepes looke full grim.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 13 May in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. 212 With a sheep face and faltering voice.
b. In parasynthetic formations (and their derivatives), chiefly with reference to the timidity or stupidity of the sheep, as sheep-faced, sheep-headed, sheep-hearted, sheep-spirited, sheep-witted adjs.; also †sheep-hued adj., of the colour of a sheep's fleece.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > off-white
paper-whitec1430
sheep-hued?a1600
natural1854
ecru1869
natural-coloured1909
off-white1931
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 389 A scheip hewit clock to cover his cleathis.
1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea B 6 b Those simple Sheepe-headed fooles.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iii. 43 Sheepe-spirited Boy, although he had not married me, He might haue proferd kindnesse in a corner.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i A vile sheep-hearted blockhead!
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvii. 234 The most modest, silent, sheep-faced and meek of little men.
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 44 The extraordinary sheep-sightedness of spade-and-mattock-wielding humanity.
1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience ii. vii General sheepfacedness ensued.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee viii. 102 The sheep-witted earl who could claim long descent from a king's leman.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Appositive.
sheep-cattle n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shepe cattell, pecus.
1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep 205 There be two sortes of Sheepe cattell, the better sort is those of the soft wooll.
sheep-hog n.
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1558 in Archæol. Jrnl. 5 317, vj *shepe hogges.
1605 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 14 Four sheep called sheep hogges, value 20s.
1817 Carlop Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 116 Mass John, Like sow, or sheep-hog, fat.
b. = Of, belonging to, produced by, or concerned with sheep.† sheep flesh n. Obsolete
sheep-dung n.
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1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xx. 121 The most proper soyle for Gardens are your Sheep-dung, your Hen muck.
1906 C. A. Sherring Western Tibet xiv. 276 Cow-dung and sheep-dung fires.
sheep-fair n.
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1473 Cov. Leet Bk. 386 That no man occupie their shepe feyre but between the Gosford yate and the White-frere lane.
1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 7 Dec. 582 The 11th of October is the Sheep-fair.
sheep-fell n. (fell n.1)
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c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 791 Medee sayde to Iason than:..‘I wolde make the that schepe-fel Wynne to-morwe with-outen perel’.
1562 in Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1891) II. 23 That no bowcher..shall sell any of ther shepfell.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xx. 3 Vnder him, an Oxe-hide newly flead; Aboue him Sheep fels store.
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. i Swyne flesche and schepe flesche is better rosted þan sode.
sheep-flock n.
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1808 in Shirreff Agric. Shetl. Isl. (1814) 56 A common shepherd in each parish..would tend..to increase the sheep flocks.
1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 65 And sheep-flock clouds like worlds of wool.
sheep husbandry n.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 182 If population was lessened by a general introduction of the sheep-husbandry in the Highlands.
sheep kidney n.
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1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 49 Cocks' combs and sheep-kidneys, chopped up with mutton-chops and liver.
sheep management n.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 43 The use of ensilage overcomes many difficulties in sheep management.
sheep path n.
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1779 Mirror No. 37 A green hill..seamed with a winding sheep-path.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 13 The sheep-paths running along their sides like ruled lines.
sheep race n.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 45 If ever, among the continually changing modes of fashionable follies, sheep races should happen to become the rage.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 183 Whether all the present diversities of the sheep race are descended from one original pair or not.
sheep show n.
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1782 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 320 Cawston-Sheep-Show.
1782 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 323 The greatest ‘sheep-show’ in the country.
sheep stock n.
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1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 309 Sheep-stocks have been found more profitable than goats.
sheep suet n.
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?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxii Take two pounde of shepe suet molten.
sheep tallow n.
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15.. Aberdeen Regr. XXI. (Jam.) Scheip tawcht & nolt tawcht.
sheep track n.
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1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. viii. 96 Jerry then looked about, and found a sheep-track.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. iii. 77 A path, or rather a sheep-track.
c. = Having to do with the rearing, keeping, or feeding of sheep, for the use of sheep.† sheep market n. Obsolete† sheep year n. Obsolete
sheep-barn n.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 42 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The remaining twenty-four..were put in the sheep-barn.
sheep-boy n.
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1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 81 The sheep-boy saw him go in.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. iv. 45 Pipe, happy sheep-boy, Love!
sheep-common n.
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1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 277 He advised the turning of the Wash of a Sheep-common to the Roots of the Trees.
sheep country n.
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1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 31/2 Ten thousand acres of first-class sheep country.
sheep crib n.
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1921 K. S. Woods Rural Industries round Oxf. ii. i. 80 Hazel..is made into wattle or ‘flake’ hurdles and sheep cribs.
1946 N. Wymer Eng. Country Crafts vii. 77 These bands..also undertake the making of such articles as hen-coops, pump-buckets, sheep-cribs.
sheep down n.
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1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 2 A vast hill of chalk..divided into a sheep down, the high wood, and a long hanging wood.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 108 The inclosures on sheep downs.
sheep feed n.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 777 Where the weld does not succeed, a portion of sheep-feed may be afforded for winter and spring use.
sheep flake n.
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii Thou shalt nat nede to bye any hurdels nor shepeflekes.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 39 The field may be effectually subdivided by sheep-flakes, or hurdles.
sheep food n.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 350 Intended either for a crop of seed, or for sheep-food.
sheep ground n.
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1560 T. Becon Jewel of Joy in Wks. II. f. xv What shepe ground scapeth these Caterpyllers of the commune weale?
1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 148 The Sheep Ground abounds with many Springs of good Water.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 300 The minute eggs may..exist in the stagnant atmosphere of the sheep-ground.
sheep heck n.
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1417–18 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 302 Pro staures emptis pro shepehekkys apud le Holme.
?1830 P. Sellar Netherby, Cumberland 55, in Farm-rep. Hay, in sheep-haicks or cribs, is given along with turnips.
sheep keep n.
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1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 28 Lands..brought into cultivation for the production of sheep-keep.
sheep land n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 339 The sheep-land at Appleford..is subject to the staggers.
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1606 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 281 To reduce the shepe markett thither to a place certayne.
1611 Bible (King James) John v. 2 There is at Hierusalem by the sheep market, a poole. View more context for this quotation
sheep paddock n.
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1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. v. 103 This part of the station is still called the ‘sheep paddocks’.
sheep pasture n.
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx That man that hath the best shepe pasteure for winter.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 127 Several hundred of sheep-pasture titles have since been divided on those different tracks, which are now cultivated.
c1830 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III. i. 22 When the land was in poor sheep-pasture.
sheep pond n.
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1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude i. 13 The dull sheep-ponds scattered here and there.
sheep pool n.
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1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 142 The Gospel testifies of a Sheep-Pool [John v. 2].
sheep ranch n.
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1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade i. 1 Thus it is common to hear of a corn ranch, a wheat ranch, a sheep ranch.
1981 G. McDonald Fletch & Widow Bradley xviii. 72 She worked six months on a sheep ranch.
sheep range n.
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1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess in Hood's Mag. Apr. 313 Where..sheep-range leads to cattle-tract.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 150 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The land is divided as follows: Tilled land,..roads, pasture, and sheep range.
sheep salve n.
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1600 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 48 For shepe salve the third of December, iiij d.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 351 Sheep-salve, tar-and-grease for dressing sheep with.
sheep shed n.
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1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure vii. 110 Allus came up to my sheep-shed, an' if I 'ad people a-watchin' me at work—tourists an' loike—would say, ‘Ah! company I zee.’
sheep station n.
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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 411 A sheep-station in the interior [of Australia].
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 8 The long blue-grey galvanised-iron wool-shed of some sheep station.
1944 F. Clune Red Heart 59 They came to the last outpost of civilisation, at Mount Abundance sheep station.
sheep turnip n.
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1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry x. 48 Five Pound each (which is but a Third of the Weight of the large Size of Sheep-Turneps).
sheep wagon n.
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1909 E. Rupert Let. 24 May in Atlantic Monthly (1913) Oct. 434/2 About noon the first day out we came near a sheep-wagon.
1962 G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail xx. 134 The canvas-roofed sheep wagon was the ultimate in household compaction, combining the essentials of kitchen, dining-room, bedroom and sheep dog quarters.
sheep yard n.
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1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 346 To every farm yard ought to be attached a sheep yard, or home fold, completely fenced in.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 387 I will only add my testimony in favour of sheep-yard dung.
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1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. xi. 49 In an ill sheepe-yeare I have knowne Mutton as deere in Old-England.
d. Objective and objective genitive. † sheep-keeper n. Obsolete† sheep keeping n. Obsolete† sheep-monger n. Obsolete† sheep-whistling adj. Obsolete
sheep-breeder n.
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1805 R. Parkinson Tour in Amer. II. xix. 359 In America..all such gentlemen..as have endeavoured to become great sheep-breeders, have..been unsuccessful in the attempt.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 356/2 This is an important consideration with the sheep-breeder.
sheep-clipper n.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxv. 7 I haue herde saye that thou hast shepe clyppers.
1875 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 11 103 Sheep-clipping is another part of the piece-work system at Knettishall.
sheep-grazier n.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 30 The Kentish sheep-graziers of Romney Marsh.
sheep-grazing n.
sheep-rancher n.
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1904 Country Life July 287/1 The Montana sheep-rancher figures that the wool will pay all expenses, leaving the increase for his profit.
1976 A. J. Russell Pour Hemlock (1979) vii. 61 A sheep rancher who owned vast lands on the Colorado Plateau, in northeastern Arizona.
sheep-holder n.
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1795 in J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth (1799) 531 The sheep-holders were persuaded to make a trial of a larger boned stronger sheep.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Sheep-holder, a cradle or table to hold a sheep while being shorn.
sheep-jobber n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 309 That practice..is common among the sheep-jobbers.
sheep-jobbing n.
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1688 in Gentleman's Mag. (1817) 87 ii. 603 Our sheep-jobing trade.
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1604 G. Babington Comf. Notes: Exod. i. (Exod.) iii. 37 Iethro his Sheepe-keeper.
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a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 282 Thocht he var nocht leirned..mair nor he that new come fra the schip keiping.
sheep-lamber n.
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1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXII Sheep-Lamber,..the person who has the..management of the ewe-flocks, which are under the state of lambing.
sheep lambing n.
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1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 21 in Farm-rep. The dung..made in the sheep-lambing fold.
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1560 T. Becon Jewel of Joy in Wks. II. f. xv Howe do the rych men, and specially suche as be shepemongers oppresse the kynges lyege people by deuourynge theyr commune pastures wyth theyr shepe?
sheep-napper n.
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1707 J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 205 A Sheep-napper, whose Trade is so deep, If he's caught in the Corn, he's mark'd for a Sheep.
sheep-owner n.
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1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 365/1 This is a view of the case which should never be forgotten by the sheep-owner.
sheep-raiser n.
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1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 112 The largest sheep-raiser in England.
sheep raising n.
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1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 352 Sheep-Raising.
1880 Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 660 Had not the soil been well adapted to sheep-raising of the highest order.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 776 An old Sheepe-whistling [printed Sheepe-whistiing; corrected in 1632] Rogue. View more context for this quotation
sheep-worrier n.
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1681 in Harl. Misc. (1744) II. 111 They are no more to be reclaimed than a Sheep-Worrier.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere x. 72 A fierce and savage dog, a confirmed sheep-worrier.
sheep worry n.
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1903 R. Bridges Wintry Delights 122 That Sheep-worry of Europe, when pigmy Napoleon enter'd Her sovereign chambers.
sheep worrying n.
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1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 417 They hang down their heads like dogs convicted of sheep-worrying.
e. Instrumental and adverbial.
sheep-bitten adj.
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1917 J. Masefield Lollingdon Downs 31 Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland, On the hills where the wind goes over sheep-bitten turf.
sheep-browsed adj.
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1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 5 The sheep-browsed slopes.
sheep-dotted adj.
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a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 331 Up the round hill, sheep-dotted, was his way.
sheep-fed adj.
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1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford 450 The other part [sc. of a field]..was sown down upon sheep-fed rye in June.
sheep-grazed adj.
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1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 256 The bird-haunted, sheep-grazed meadows.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. (Advts. Suppl.) 3/8 Turfs, good quality, sheep grazed and weed treated, machine cut 3ft. × 1ft.
sheep-nibbled adj.
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1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iii. ii. 53 Kelly-law's sheep-nibbled top.
sheep-proof adj.
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1882 A. S. Armstrong & G. O. Campbell Austral. Sheep Husbandry xvii. 186 This fence can be made still more sheep-proof..by leaving out the bottom wire, and having..a light embankment thrown up.
1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life iv. 134 The fence, much damaged by floods, was repaired merely to the sheep-proof standard.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 74/2 20 paddocks, all sheep-proof fenced.
sheep-scattered adj.
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1978 I. Murdoch Sea 401 After the bog there was ordinary farm land, sheep-scattered hillsides.
sheep-trimmed adj.
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1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 147 He went out for a stroll on a sheep-trimmed down.
sheep-white adj.
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1828 T. Hood Town & Country xv No sheep-white hill my dwelling flanks.
1945 D. Thomas in Poetry (Chicago) July 175 The frozen hold Flocked with the sheep white smoke of the farm house cowl.
C2. Special combinations.† sheep bar n. Obsolete a kind of hurdle on which sheep are laid to be clipped.† sheep-brand n. Obsolete = sheep-mark n. 1. † sheep-counter n. Obsolete a counter or token used in counting sheep (cf. Shakespeare Winter's Tale iv. iii. 38).† sheep-crook n. Obsolete a shepherd's crook.† sheep-drunk adj. Obsolete (see quot. 1592 and cf. note s.v. lion-drunk adj.). † sheep-furred adj. Obsolete trimmed with sheep's wool.† sheep-garth n. Obsolete a sheepfold.† sheep-hound n. Obsolete = sheep-dog n.† sheep-killing pennygrass n. Obsolete Hydrocotyle vulgaris.† sheep-nose-worm n. Obsolete the larva of the sheep-bot. † sheep-reeve n. Obsolete a chief shepherd.† sheep-stead n. Obsolete† sheep-steading n. Scottish Obsolete a sheep-farm.† sheep-ward n. Obsolete a shepherd.† sheep-water n. Obsolete = sheep-wash n. 2.† sheep-weald n. Obsolete sheep-pasture.
sheep-back n. = roche moutonnée n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > roche moutonnée
roche moutonnée1841
sheep-back1877
whaleback1913
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography x. 162 The flat-domed hummocks of rock produced in this way are termed sheep-backs or roches moutonnées.
sheep bands n. (see quot.).
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1865 J. Hannett Bibliopegia i. 150 Bands, or raised cords, were..used for school books, which species of binding is now universally known as sheep bands.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed > hurdle on which sheep laid
sheep bar1557
spreading board1821
1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 101 ij. axletrees, withe other shepe barres and hustlement.
sheep-bell n. a bell hung on a sheep's neck (see bellwether n.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-bell
sheep-bell1411
low bell1578
tankard1880
1411 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 86 j. shepebell, jd.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. ix. 309 The faint tinkling of a sheep-bell; and..the bleat of flocks.
1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in Church Bells Devon ix. 261 [He] was in the habit of tuning, to exact musical scale, the sheep bells of many of his agricultural friends.
sheep-berry n. the North American tree, Viburnum Lentago, or its fruit, which is fancied to resemble sheep-droppings.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] > American wayfaring-tree
moose bush1784
wayfaring tree1785
sheep-berry1814
witchhopple1826
hobble-bush1842
hopple1853
wayfarer's tree1853
devil's shoestring1860
tangle-leg1860
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 709 Sheep-berry. Viburnum prunifolium.
1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 162 Viburnum Lentago... Sweet Viburnum. Sheep-berry.
sheep blowfly n. a large greenish blowfly belonging to the genus Lucilia, esp. L. coprina, the larva of which is a pest of sheep in Australia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of genus Lucilia (sheep blowfly)
sheep blowfly1932
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of genus Lucilia (sheep blowfly) > lucilia coprina (sheep blowfly)
sheep blowfly1932
1932 Discovery July 210/2 The sheep blowfly..is reliably estimated to do £4,000,000 worth of damage every year [in Australia].
1974 R. D. Hughes Living Insects v. 128 Cool temperatures in autumn can induce a pause in the development of the prepupal larva of the sheep blowfly.
sheep-book n. a book of accounts in which are entered the particulars relating to flocks of sheep.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep- or flock-book
sheep-book1831
flock-book1912
1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 84 in Farm-rep. The waste-books, consisting of a corn-book, cash-book, sheep-book.
sheep-bot n. (also sheep-bot fly) the bot-fly Œstrus ovis.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus ovis (sheep-bot)
gad1658
sheep gad-fly1803
sheep-bot1819
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXII. (at cited word) Œ. ovis, the sheep bot-fly..Œ. tarandi, the reindeer bot-fly.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 871/2 In the larva of the sheep-bot..there are thirteen segments.
1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 624 The sheep bot-fly (Cephalemyia ovis) lays its eggs in the nostrils of sheep.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > marking of sheep > mark
earmarka1500
raddle-mark?1523
sheep-markc1534
sheep-brand1586
woolmark1603
bottea1642
pitch-mark1649
smota1672
smit1828
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 241 If they be not..agreeing with the conformity..of Blazon..they may vse them as sheepbrands.
sheep-bug n. one of the genus Argas of mites, infesting sheep.
sheep-bush n. Australian either of two species of Geijera, G. parviflora or G. linearifolia, of the family Rutaceæ, a small evergreen tree sometimes used as fodder for sheep.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens
pine1788
angophora1804
ohia1815
pate1832
pohutukawa1832
Moreton Bay chestnut1836
Olearia1839
horopito1847
ramarama1848
matipo1853
white pine1856
musk tree1866
manoao1867
patete1867
puka1867
rangiora1867
tawhiri1872
tarata1876
lemon-wood1879
Otago ivy-tree1883
horizontal1888
lehua1888
inanga1889
mountain pine1889
puka1889
Queensland kauri1889
sheep-bush1889
wilga1889
mutton-bird tree1891
tree-daisy1926
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 130 Geijera parviflora, Wilga, Sheep-bush, Dogwood and Willow.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 June 25/2 Sheep bush..is tall and ornamental. It has long narrow leaves.
1965 Austral. Encycl. IX. 310/2 The smaller related G[eijera] linearifolia, which extends into Western Australia, is called sheep-bush.
sheep-camp n. (a) North American a camp for sheep herders; (b) Australian and New Zealand, a resting or assembly place of sheep (cf. camp n.2 4c); (c) South African a fenced-in enclosure for sheep (cf. camp n.2 4e).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > resting-place for sheep
sheep-camp1911
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of
ordu1673
chantier1823
douar1829
outcamp1844
log-camp1858
lumbering-camp1858
yayla1864
refugee camp1865
cow-camp1873
gypsyry1873
work camp1877
tent town1878
logging-camp1880
lumber-camp1882
town camp1885
base camp1887
line-camp1888
wanigan1890
isolation camp1891
tent village1899
sheep-camp1911
safari camp1912
jungle1914
transit camp1919
Siwash camp1922
health camp1925
tent city1934
fly camp1939
bivvy1961
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen
sheepfolda1430
caul1483
boughta1522
sheep-garth1570
wool-hurdle1586
barkary?1592
sheep-pen1649
ovil1674
night-lair1688
turnip-tray1805
sheep-ree1817
stow1856
dead-fold1897
sheep-camp1911
check-pen1922
1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 85 Though only a sheep camp, this grand mountain hollow is home.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xx. 180 Before the establishment of sheep-camps growing grass and clover, there was nothing to tempt pig from the low grounds.
1931 Amer. Speech 7 120 A sheep camp, or the migratory home of a pair of shepherders, consists of a canvas-topped wagon with a stove in it and a bunk or bed at the back.
1939 P. A. Rollins Gone Haywire v. 114 He had stopped at a sheep camp and played casino.
1947 H. C. Bosman Mafeking Road 60 The wire he had borrowed from me for his new sheep-camp.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 463/1 The paddock was a sheep-camp paddock or similar place where considerable numbers of sheep were frequently concentrated.
1973 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 11 Aug. 7/2 A few miles down-river there was a sheep-camp.
sheep cocky n. Australian and New Zealand colloquial a sheep-farmer on a small scale (cf. cocky n.2 2).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer
sheep-mastera1520
wool-master?1552
sheepman1591
tup-man1790
flock-master1798
sheep-farmer1805
tup-breeder1831
squatter1840
pastoralist1879
sheep-walker1885
wool king1889
wool-owner1894
sheep cocky1949
1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiv. 206 I never can teach my wife that a sheep-cocky's dogs aren't pets.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > counter or token
counterc1310
algorism stonec1405
casting-countersc1547
sheep-counter1647
jetton1687
abbey piece1759
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 John ii. 18) Children may be easily cozened, and made to take a sheep-counter for an angel, because broader and brighter.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > crook
sheep-crookc1420
crookc1430
staffc1475
hook?1523
sheep-hook?1523
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 327 A shepe-crook in hys hand he sparyd for no pryde.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxv. 158 He must whoop and whistle after them, threatning them with his sheepe-crooke.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 70 Who shall now the royal sheep-crook hold,..who now secure the fold?
?1873 T. Hardy Lett. (1978) I. 25 I have sketched in my note-book during the past summer a few correct outlines of smockfrocks, gaiters, sheep~crooks, rick-‘staddles’..and some other out-of-the-way things that might have to be shown.
sheep-dip n. (a) = sheep-wash n. 2; (b) a place where sheep are washed; also fig. (see quots. 1945, 1976).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > sheep-wash or -dip
sheep-watera1722
fag water1848
sheep-wash1858
sheep-dip1865
dip1871
wash1933
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > place
wash-dyke1765
wash-pool1827
sheep-dip1865
dip1871
soak-hole1881
dipper1891
1865 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 51 An ‘extract of tobacco’, manufactured..for the making of ‘sheep-dips’.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. at Sheep-wash The Place where the sheep are washed, also called the ‘sheep-dip’.
1911 W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush v. 93 He was selling a new species of sheep-dip.
1915 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Nov. 411 Do not economize in the purchase of sheep-dip.
1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 262 Many generic names for alcoholic stimulants..sheep-dip, [etc.].
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 118 His seat was an old five-gallon drum that had once held sheep dip.
1976 New Yorker 3 May 65/1 ‘Sheep dip’ was what the lumberjacks called their tea.
sheep-dipping n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping
sheep-wash749
rivering1532
sheepwashing1826
crutching1837
sheep-dipping1852
jetting1941
1852 Trans. Highl. Soc. 418 Sheep-dipping apparatus.
1887 J. Coleman Cattle Great Brit. 281 The value of sheep dipping, both as affecting health, removing vermin, and favouring wool growth.
1915 J. R. Macdonald N.Z. Sheepfarming xxvii. 71 It is needless to set forth all the conditions for complete success in sheep dipping, seeing that..it is the custom to attach directions for use on every packet or drum.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 228 The primary use, for a coracle, now, is for fly-fishing and sheep~dipping.
sheep-dog n. (a) a dog that tends sheep; spec. one or other of the varieties trained for this purpose, as the Scotch collie, and the bob-tailed English sheep-dog; cf. shepherd's dog n. at shepherd n. Compounds 2b; (b) figurative a chaperon.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun]
shepherd-dogc1425
shepherd's dogc1440
shepherd's mastie1577
sheep-hounda1640
sheep-doga1774
tripe-hound1923
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that tends sheep or cattle
sheep-hounda1640
sheep-doga1774
heading1904
heading dog1913
heeler1928
handy dog1933
Entlebucher1937
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > action of sheep-dog > sheep-dog
sheep-doga1774
header1903
heading dog1913
tripe-hound1923
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > one in charge of young person > female
governoressc1422
governess?c1500
governante1637
gouvernante1667
duenna1709
chaperone1720
sheep-dog1847
gooseberry-picker1868
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 200 The faithful sheep-dog assists in tending our flocks.
1844 W. C. Spooner Sheep 295 The sheep-owner should never keep a savage sheep-dog.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 339 A sheep-dog—a companion! Becky Sharp with a companion!
1897 V. Hunt Unkist, Unkind! ix Philip's sister couldn't manage to get away from Buxton just now, so here I am, without any sheep-dog at all.
sheep-dog v. (transitive) to urge (someone) on in the manner of a sheep-dog; to direct or also as herd.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > direct > as a schoolmaster, sheepdog, or shepherd
shepherda1822
schoolmaster1839
shepherdize1899
sheep-dog1973
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Apr. 418/4 Working with Thomas Jones and sheep-dogged by vigilant helpers, I entered a new dimension of scholarship.
ˈsheep-dogging n.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > direction > like a sheepdog
sheep-dogging1969
1969 E. Blishen This Right Soft Lot i. ii. 40 A surprising number of boys seemed never to have seen the Thames before... So I did a little quick sheep~dogging, and at last we reached the gallery.
1981 S. Jackman Game of Soldiers i. 15 The Group Senior Signals Officer..has done his time..on Coastal Command Sunderlands, sheep-dogging convoys in the Western Approaches.
sheep drain n. an open drain cut in grass-land about 18 inches wide by 18 inches deep.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage > specific type
pipe drain1766
air drainage1816
well drain1818
sheep drain1844
pipe drainage1851
dead well1859
mole ditch1860
dumb well1878
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 497 When the grass is smooth and the soil pretty deep, this is an economical mode of making such drains, which have received the appellation of sheep drains.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > thinking oneself wise in drink
sheep-drunk1592
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G3v The fourth [kind of drunkenness] is Sheepe drunke, wise in his own conceipt, when he cannot bring foorth a right word.
sheep-fag n. (see fag n.1).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1789 A. Young in Encycl. Brit. (1797) XVII. 348/2 The hippobosca ovina, called in Lincolnshire sheep fagg.
sheep-farm n. a tract of land devoted to sheep-rearing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farm
sheep-steading1566
sheep-stead1581
sheep-farm1776
station1853
squattage1862
1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. II. 400 A letter from Mr. George Malcolm, concerning Sheep-farms, &c.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 172 The sheep-farms in the higher districts.
sheep-farm v.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep [verb (intransitive)]
sheep-farm1861
1861 Times 27 Sept. English farmers who come expressly to till and sheep-farm.
sheep-farmer n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer
sheep-mastera1520
wool-master?1552
sheepman1591
tup-man1790
flock-master1798
sheep-farmer1805
tup-breeder1831
squatter1840
pastoralist1879
sheep-walker1885
wool king1889
wool-owner1894
sheep cocky1949
1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 370 The least enlightened sheep farmers of France.
sheep-farming n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun]
sheep-farming1805
1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 333 The various plans of sheep farming.
sheep-fly n. (a) = sheep-tick n.; (b) a fly, Lucilia sericata, infesting live sheep.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > group Pupipara or Nymphipara > family Hippoboscidae > melophagus ovinus (sheep-tick)
sheep-louse14..
sheep-tickc1425
ked1570
sheep-fly1658
fag1788
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of genus Lucilia (sheep blowfly) > lucilia sericata
sheep-fly1902
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) i. xi. 934 The Tick or Sheep-fly.
1902 Nature 7 Aug. 352 The life-history of the sheep-fly (Lucilia sericata).
sheep-fodder plant n. a South African plant, Pentzia virgata (Miller Plant-n. 1884).
sheep-foil n. Hunting a foiling (see foil v.1 2) of the track by sheep.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > loss of scent
stinta1425
sheep-foil1842
foil1930
1842 T. Willy in ‘Nimrod’ Life Sportsman xiv. 261 For a moment, a sheep-foil now baffles the scent.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [adjective] > fur or wool
erminedc1485
sheep-furred1597
vairy1728
1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. E3 His sheepe-furd short gowne.
sheep gad-fly n. Œstrus ovis.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus ovis (sheep-bot)
gad1658
sheep gad-fly1803
sheep-bot1819
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 398 The Sheep Gad-fly.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen
sheepfolda1430
caul1483
boughta1522
sheep-garth1570
wool-hurdle1586
barkary?1592
sheep-pen1649
ovil1674
night-lair1688
turnip-tray1805
sheep-ree1817
stow1856
dead-fold1897
sheep-camp1911
check-pen1922
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ciii/2 Ye Sheepgarth, ouile.
sheep-gate n. (a) [gate n.2 8] pasturage, or the right of pasturage, for sheep (or a sheep); (b) [gate n.1] a gate for the passage of sheep; a hurdle for enclosing sheep.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > passage or gate for sheep
sheep-gate1535
swing-gate1774
folding-slap1787
hog-gap1878
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Esdras iii. 1 Eliasib the hye prest..buylded the Shepegate.
1537–8 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle (1889) 352 Two messes..with all the shepe-gates and common of pasture.
1569 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye (1584) 97 For tillage, [they] vse sheepe~gates, where no men are maintained.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 109 What is a Cowe, Oxe, Horse, or sheepe-gate woorth by the yeere, or by the weeke.
c1882 J. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale iii. 7 ‘Sheep-gates’..are let..with each farm.
1883 J. Y. Stratton Hops & Hop-pickers 47 A lodging for hoppers..constructed by means of sheep-gates thatched with straw.
sheep glue piece n. (see quot. 1858).
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sheep-glue Pieces and Fleshings, cuttings of sheep skins saved for making glue.
sheep-heaf n. a sheep-walk.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1844 Min. Evid. Sel. Comm. Commons' Inclosure 26 The want of accurate knowledge as to the right of stinting in the sheep-heafs.
sheep-herder n. U.S. one who herds sheep in large numbers in unfenced country.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd
shepherda1023
sheep's herdc1175
shepc1381
herd-groomc1384
pastorc1400
pastorelc1440
groomc1550
Pan1579
sheepman1591
pastoral1607
sheep-ward1609
feeder1611
sheep-herder1872
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 210 Sheepherder.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 25 One melting drift has revealed the body of a frozen sheep-herder.
sheep-herding n.
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1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 244 Sheep-herding is supposed by those who have never followed it to be an easy, idle, lazy way of procuring a livelihood.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun]
shepherd-dogc1425
shepherd's dogc1440
shepherd's mastie1577
sheep-hounda1640
sheep-doga1774
tripe-hound1923
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that tends sheep or cattle
sheep-hounda1640
sheep-doga1774
heading1904
heading dog1913
heeler1928
handy dog1933
Entlebucher1937
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbb3/1 They hang their most dejected heads, Like fearfull sheephounds.
sheep-kill n. = sheep-laurel n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
mountain laurel1759
ivy-tree1760
kalmia1765
lambkill1790
sheep-poison1790
sheep-laurel1810
calico-bush1814
wicky1901
sheep-kill1968
1968 E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies vii. 106 The purple loops of the sheepkill.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh pennywort
sheep-killing penny-grass?1523
wood-nep1526
pennywort1578
sheep-killing pennygrass1578
fluke-wort1597
penny-rot1597
sheep's bane1597
white rot1597
fairies' table1878
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxv. 38 Ye base Almaignes do call it Penninckcruyt: in English Sheepe killing Pennygrasse.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 Water Pennywoort..Sheepes killing Pennygrasse, Penny rot,..White rot.
sheep-laurel n. a North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, supposed to be very poisonous to sheep; cf. lambkill n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
mountain laurel1759
ivy-tree1760
kalmia1765
lambkill1790
sheep-poison1790
sheep-laurel1810
calico-bush1814
wicky1901
sheep-kill1968
1810 F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 35 Mountain laurel..sheep laurel,..nom secondaire.
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis I. 296 Kalmia ovata.., known by the name of Sheep Laurel, being considered very poisonous when fed upon by sheep.
1954 C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 281 Sheep laurel..is also known as lambkill because of the severely toxic substance in the leaves.
sheep-lease n. dialect a sheepwalk.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 324 I am told, that in Dorsetshire the aim of the farmers is, to fold on their sheep-leases in the middle of July.
sheep-meat n. (a) Western U.S. mutton; (b) in modern trading use: meat obtained from sheep; mutton and lamb; (also written as one word).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun]
muttonc1300
sheep-meat1975
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Sheep meat.
1975 Austral. Outlook XXIX. 298 New Zealand supplies 80 per cent of EEC sheepmeat imports.
1978 Times 19 June 17/3 The word ‘sheepmeat’ with which Brussels refers to mutton and lamb, is translated from the official French term, Viande ovine.
1979 Times 13 Nov. 17/6 The recent use of the term ‘sheepmeat’ in place of mutton and lamb is depressing in the extreme and will, I should think, put many people off buying what is one of our most important farm products.
sheep-money n. = sheep-silver n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > money payment in lieu of produce
sheep-silver?12..
wood-silverc1245
wood-penny1261
woodland penny1351
cow-whit1508
wether-silver1557
sheep-moneya1618
veal money1672
wood-rent1774
a1618 W. Raleigh Prerogatiue Parl. (1628) 55 There was nothing new, neither head money, nor sheepe money, nor escuage.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 321 They pay the ox and sheep money that was granted as a compliment to the Earl of Bothwell.
sheep-net n. a net for confining sheep upon turnips.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > net or hurdle on turnips
sheep-net1794
turnip-tray1805
1794 J. Wilson Gen. View Agric. Renfrewshire (1812) 147 (Jam.) [He] has fed annually about 300 or 400 Highland sheep on his turnip fields by using sheep-nets for folding.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 72 Sheep-nets run about 50 yards in length, when set, and weigh about 14 lb.
sheepnose n. a small cider apple (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > cider apple
genet-moyle1655
eleot1676
stire1699
stirom1708
coccagee1727
sheepnose1817
Slack-ma-girdle1885
sheep's nose1936
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cider apples
ruddock1600
redding1611
stocking-apple1629
Harvey1640
genet-moyle1655
moil1657
winter queening1657
must1662
redstreak1662
redstreak apple1664
eleot1676
peeling1676
Sodom apple1676
stire1699
woodcock1700
underleaf1707
coccagee1727
white sour1727
sheepnose1817
Tom Putt1831
cider-apple1875
Slack-ma-girdle1885
sheep's nose1936
1817 W. Coxe View Cultiv. Fruit Trees 125 Bullocks Pippin..is more generally distinguished by the vulgar name of Sheep-nose, from a supposed resemblance between the form of the apple and that part of a sheep.
1925 C. Morley Safety Pins 178 We have seen apples of strange shapes, something like a pear (sheepnoses, they call them).
1943 B. Damon Sense of Humus 234 The Sheepnose, for example, had an interesting shape and a name just right.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus ovis (sheep-bot) > larva of
sheep-nose-worm1753
nose-worm1861
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Sheep-nose-worms..a species of fly-worm, found in the noses of sheep, goats, and stags.
sheep-penny n. = sheep-money n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of keeping specific animals
swannage1398
ox-pennya1400
hungil1450
warrenage1610
ox-money1616
nowt-geld1688
sheep-penny1774
1774 G. Low Tour Orkney & Shetl. (1879) 75 [The Schetlanders] tell us they are subjected to..the Sheep-penny, the tax on Sheep.
sheep-pest n. (a) a common Australian weed, Acæna ovina, the hooked spines of which catch in the wool of sheep (Morris Austral Eng. 1898); (b) = sheep-tick n. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1898).
sheep-plant n. = vegetable sheep n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2.
sheep-pock n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 461 Whether the cow-pock will preserve sheep from the sheep-pock is yet undecided.
sheep-pox n. a form of smallpox to which sheep are subject.
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1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. 497 The sheep-pox so closely resembles the scab, that it is not known in this country as a separate disease.
sheep-poison n. (a) = sheep-laurel n.; (b) Lupinus densiflorus (Miller Plant-n. 1884).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
mountain laurel1759
ivy-tree1760
kalmia1765
lambkill1790
sheep-poison1790
sheep-laurel1810
calico-bush1814
wicky1901
sheep-kill1968
1790 L. Castiglioni Viaggio negli Stati Uniti II. 271 K[almia] Angustifolia... Sheep poison, Ivy, Dwarf-Laurell, Lamb-kill.
1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 103 Kalmia angustifolia,..a low shrub with rose coloured flowers, very common in low grounds, and known by the names sheep poison, lambkill, low laurel, &c.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 234 K. angustifolia... Sheep-poison. Narrow-leaved Laurel.
sheep-rack n. (a) a rack from which sheep feed; (b) a sheep-house; (c) the starling.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding sheep > sheep-fodder rack
sheep-rack1594
1594 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1907) 3rd Ser. 1 266 I suffered..my servant to carrie a sheeperacke to the pasture on the Sabboth daie.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxv. 153 Setting it [sc. the sheephouse] round about with mangers or sheeperacks of a low pitch for to fodder them in.
1835 C. Howard Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 18 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III A salt-trough, and a sheep-rack for hay, should be found with every flock.
sheep-rake n. a sheep-walk or sheep-track.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1653 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1887) V. For unjustly takeinge and driving away fiftie sheep of the Common sheep-rak of Great Crakeall.
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 213 It is a very poor country..being only mosses and sheep rakes.
sheep-ree n. a permanent sheepfold.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen
sheepfolda1430
caul1483
boughta1522
sheep-garth1570
wool-hurdle1586
barkary?1592
sheep-pen1649
ovil1674
night-lair1688
turnip-tray1805
sheep-ree1817
stow1856
dead-fold1897
sheep-camp1911
check-pen1922
1817 R. Brown Comic Poems Errata 174 The found o' a sheep-ree.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 406 Ree is often confounded with bught, but a sheep-ree and a sheep-bught are different.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xli. 344 To be penned like one of a score of hogs in a granite sheep-ree.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > type of
sheep-reeve1450
page1590
shepherdling1605
under-shepherda1640
lad1717
lamber1809
mayoral1879
hurdle-man1880
motherer1890
rouser1896
rousie1906
boundary-keeper1933
1450 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 113 The wronges takyng..my shepe..for declaracion in whate wyse he dyd it, John Bele my sheperefe can enforme you best.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lii. 1) Doeg, who was the Kinges sheepreeve [1 Sam. xxi. 7].
a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 30v Keper of king Obrons groves shep reve of his flockes & Droves.
sheep-rot n. (a) the rot in sheep, caused by the presence of flukes in the liver; (b) a name for plants supposed to cause disease in sheep, as butterwort and marsh pennywort.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > rot
rotc1425
sheep-rot1552
rottenness1607
poke1793
milt1857
bane1859
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > unidentified or unspecified plant
oxbane1585
Samnitis1590
rot-grass1631
burn-cow1658
fish-poison1802
sheep-rot1808
vomit-grass1808
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shepe rot, lues ouilis.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sheep-rot, butterwort or Yorkshire sanicle.
1844 W. C. Spooner Sheep 401 We cannot limit the cause of rot to eating the sheep-rot weed.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1024 In the sheep D[istomum] hepaticum gives rise to the important epizootic known as ‘sheep-rot’.
sheep-run n. originally Australian = sheep-walk n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1826 Goldie in Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 157 [The land near Circular Head] is..a good sheep run.
1851 W. Fox Six Colonies of New Zealand i. 27 The..plain…is surrounded by hills which afford excellent sheep-runs.
1862 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch I. 59 In Australia, some sheep-runs are estimated to carry one sheep to an acre.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 8 The names painted on so many of the railway stations were merely the names of large sheep runs.
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad iv. 23 I even learnt to operate on the lambs myself, and to perform the many other jobs that combine to make up the yard work on a sheep run.
sheep-scab n. a skin-disease of sheep due to an acarus.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > skin disorders
shabc897
pelt-rot?1523
dartars1580
redwater1614
rubbers1779
sheep-scab1894
scabby mouth1938
cuckoo scab1941
1894 Act 57 & 58 Vict. c. 57 §59 Foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep-scab, or swine-fever.
sheep-seaweed n. (see quot. 1895).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > edible seaweeds
slawkc1450
laver1611
badderlocks1620
hempweed1620
henware1682
dulse1698
tangle1724
slokan1758
sloke1777
honey-ware1827
carrageen1830
Irish moss1830
pearl moss1832
Ceylon moss1861
kombu1884
sea-moss1891
sheep-seaweed1895
hijiki1951
1895 M. C. Potter tr. E. Warming Handbk. Systematic Bot. 84 Rhodymenia palmata..is also used as food for sheep and hence is termed ‘Sheep-seaweed’.
sheep-sick adj. (see quot. 1895).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > poor or overgrazed
bare-eaten1577
sheep-sick1895
overgrazed1921
bush-sick1950
1895 Leader 3 Aug. 6/1 That certain country in which severe losses have occurred in recent years has been too long carrying sheep, and that the land has become what is termed ‘sheep sick’.
1962 Times 6 June 15/6 Most of it poor land and sheep-sick at that.
sheep-silver n. (see quots.).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > money payment in lieu of produce
sheep-silver?12..
wood-silverc1245
wood-penny1261
woodland penny1351
cow-whit1508
wether-silver1557
sheep-moneya1618
veal money1672
wood-rent1774
?12.. Reg. Alb. Bur. (MS.) 53 in Kennett Cowel's Interpr. De Schepsilver sc. pro vi. ovibus 1d.
1675 Jones's Reports 280 Sheep-silver..is a service now turned into money, which is paid, in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash their lords sheep.
1809 R. Kerr Agric. Surv. Berwick xv. 414 A yearly allowance in money..from 30s. to 40s. each, in name of sheep-silver, being a commutation of an ancient permission of keeping a few sheep upon the farm.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 198 The compliment of an ox and twelve sheep from every parish had..been granted to the Earl of Bothwell. It was..converted into a perpetual tribute, under the name of ox and sheep silver.
sheep-sleight n. [sleight n.3] = sheep-gate (a).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 328 If they would..send them abroad for a month..into the vale-lands..and would fold on their sheep-slates.
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 264 A sheep-down is frequently called a sheep-sleight.
1851 Dorset Gloss. Sheep-slite, sheep's pasture or walk.
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 438 Much benefit is obtained by chalking those sheep sleights retained as permanent pastures.
sheep-smearing n. the smearing of sheep with tar to kill vermin; also a kind of tar used for this purpose.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary procedures > treatments of sheep
sheep-smearing1824
footrotting1851
Mules1932
mulesing1946
the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for sheep
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
sheep-smearing1824
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > smearing with tar or salve
sheep-smearing1824
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > smearing with tar or salve > salve
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
smear1802
sheep-smearing1824
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Rinner,..butter melted with tar, for sheep-smearing.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. xi. 408 His hands..bore most legible marks of a recent sheep-smearing.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 517 Tar, produced by burning the dead wood and most resinous parts of the long-leaved pine in covered kilns, is graded as follows: ‘Rope yellow’,..—the highest grade..; ‘Roany’, or ‘Ship smearing’—the next running of the kiln.
sheep-sorrel n. = sheep's sorrel n. at Compounds 3b (see Compounds 3).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies > sorrel
sour dockc1325
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
sheep's sorrel1578
Tours sorrel1578
green sauce1620
moonwort1697
ranty-tantya1700
tree sorrel1753
sheep-sorrel1806
sour grass1866
1806 P. Gass Jrnl. 14 Mar. (1807) xviii. 188 A great quantity of sheep-sorrel growing in the woods.
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xxvii. 284 That waterish, gravelly soil that you see sometimes around a spring where nothing grows but sheep-sorrel.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 225 The diœcious flowers of Sheep-sorrel (Rumex Acetosella and R. Acetosa).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farm
sheep-steading1566
sheep-stead1581
sheep-farm1776
station1853
squattage1862
1581 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1888) 83/2 Lympottis et lie Scheipsteidis.
1612 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1892) 239/2 Lie scheipsteidis, pasturas, predia et privilegia pasturarum.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farm
sheep-steading1566
sheep-stead1581
sheep-farm1776
station1853
squattage1862
1566–7 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 501 The twa scheip stedingis pertening and adjacent thairto.
sheep-stray n. liberty of sheep to graze on a tract of land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights
pannage1392
commonc1405
stint1437
agistmenta1450
intercommon1449
commonty1466
foggage1471
communitya1475
gist1493
commoning?a1509
arrentationc1540
wether gang1561
browsage1570
pasturage1572
feed1575
intercommoner1581
frankfold1609
broouage1610
fellow commoner1612
horsegate1619
frankfoldage1628
shack1629
tatha1641
retropannage1679
levancy and couchancya1691
commonance1701
stinter1701
horse-lease1721
stray1736
goose-gate1739
commonage1792
twinter1846
couchance1886
levance1886
sheep-stray1891
stintholder1894
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 10 The tenant is privileged to enjoy the liberty of free sheep-stray.
sheep trot n. a dance as of satyrs.Apparently an isolated use.
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1926 E. Sitwell Elegy on Dead Fashion 10 The satyrs danced the sheep-trot all the day.
sheep wagtail n. a bird of the genus Budytes.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > miscellaneous types
scapular wagtail1823
sheep wagtail1869
1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds II. 290 The Velvet-headed or Sheep Wagtail (Budytes melanocephalus).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd
shepherda1023
sheep's herdc1175
shepc1381
herd-groomc1384
pastorc1400
pastorelc1440
groomc1550
Pan1579
sheepman1591
pastoral1607
sheep-ward1609
feeder1611
sheep-herder1872
1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings xvii Saul knew not David, being perhaps in a shepwards habite.
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans i. ii What need The sheep bleat thee a silly Lay, That heard'st both reed And sheepward play?
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep washing or dipping > sheep-wash or -dip
sheep-watera1722
fag water1848
sheep-wash1858
sheep-dip1865
dip1871
wash1933
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 344 The sheep-water to kill the scab.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1634 in Rutland Mag. (1905) 2 71 For sheep wealde in fforest of Lee x s.
sheep-weed n. soapwort, Saponaria officinalis (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
sheep-wool n. = sheep's wool n. at Compounds 3b (see Compounds 3).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep
wool1495
sheep's wool1721
sheep-wool1851
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > specific types > spongia equina (velvet sponge)
sheep-wool1851
boat sponge1854
wool-sponge1879
velvet sponge1882
sheep's wool1883
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 490/1 Black and blue broad coating, sheep-wool face, alpaca-wool back.
1883 A. J. Adderley Fisheries Bahamas 7 The sheep-wool sponge brings quite as high a price in markets as the Turkish variety of same.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 6/3 The strong odour of sheep-wool tells you of the flocks grazing..on its hills and plains.
C3.
a. Combinations with sheep's, †sheeps(-) (often varying with combinations of sheep, see Compounds 1, Compounds 2). For sheep's louse, sheepsman, sheep's skin, sheep's tick, see sheep-louse n., etc.
sheep's bell n.
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1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 207 Distant and faint tinkling, less loud than that of a sheep's bell at a mile's distance.
sheep's-belly n.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 132/2 Sheeps Belly, or Intrels, the puddings called strings, or Rope.
sheep's-dung n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shepes dunge or tyrdles, rudus.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 67 Sheeps-dung is very excellent being dissolved wholly..to steep Grain therein.
sheep's-gather n. (see gather n.2)
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1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Corée, ou fressure, a sheepes gather.
sheep's-pelt n.
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 445/2 Schepys pylett.., molestra.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Schepes pellet or dong, fient a brebis.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sheep-pelts, the skins of sheep, fresh or salted, intended for leather.
sheep's-pluck n. (pluck n.1 3.)
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe
tripea1300
numblesc1330
tripea1400
chitterling?c1400
giblet14..
hasletc1400
umbles14..
womb cloutc1400
garbage1422
offala1425
interlardc1440
hinge1469
draught?a1475
mugget1481
paunch1512
purtenance1530
pertinence1535
chawdron1578
menudes1585
humblesa1592
gut?1602
pluck1611
sheep's-pluck1611
fifth quarter1679
trail1764
fry1847
chitling1869
small goods1874
black tripe1937
variety meat1942
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fressure,..A sheepes plucke.
1761 H. Walpole Let. 5 May in Corr. (1941) IX. 365 As if she had just bought a sheep's pluck in St. James's market.
sheep's sleight n.
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Sheep's-slite, sheep's pasture, or walk. Dorset.
sheep's-tallow n.
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a1425 tr. Arderne's Fistula 92 Þan ow þou for to putte with þe oile as war þrid parte of schepez talow.
sheep's-trotters n.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P Trotters, sheepes porknells, and butterd rootes.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 92 Sheep-trotters, and other offal.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. xv. 70 A huge fricassee of sheep-trotters.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 145 Paunceford once resided in a garret; where he subsisted upon sheeps'-trotters and cow-heel.
1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 11 May 15/1 3d. worth of sheep's trotters.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 413 A cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper.
b. † sheep's-colour n. Obsolete the colour of unbleached sheep's wool.† sheep's course n. Obsolete a sheep-walk.† sheep's feet n. Nautical Obsolete a kind of stay.† sheep's herd n. Obsolete = shepherd n.† sheep's leather n. Obsolete leather made from sheepskin.† sheep's pellet n. Obsolete sheep's dung.† sheep's russet n. Obsolete russet such as was worn by shepherds.† sheep's silver n. Obsolete mica.† sheep's snout n. Obsolete a variety of apple.
sheep's bane n. marsh pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, in the West Indies H. umbellata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh pennywort
sheep-killing penny-grass?1523
wood-nep1526
pennywort1578
sheep-killing pennygrass1578
fluke-wort1597
penny-rot1597
sheep's bane1597
white rot1597
fairies' table1878
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 A kinde of Nauelwoort,..which is called of the husbandman Sheepesbane.
1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 61 Marsh Pennywort..known as Pennygrass, White-rot, Fluke-wort, and Sheep's-bane.
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787.
sheep's beard n. the genus Urospermum ( Arnopogon).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > other composite plants
wild sagea1400
yellow devil's-bita1400
white golda1425
cotula1578
golden cudweed1597
golden tuft1597
rattlesnake root1682
Cape tansy?1711
hawkbit1713
ambrosia1731
cabbage tree1735
hog's eye1749
Osteospermum1754
ox-tongue1760
scentless mayweed1800
old man's beard1804
ox-eye1818
echinacea1825
sheep's beard1836
shepherd's beard1840
cat's-ear1848
goatweed1869
silversword1888
khaki bush1907
venidium1937
khaki bos1947
Namaqualand daisy1963
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 666 (table) Arnopogon. W. Sheep's Beard.
sheep's bit n. (also sheep's bit scabious) = sheep's scabious n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun] > sheep's bit scabious
sheep's scabious1578
sheep's bit1796
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 248 [Iasione montana] Hairy Sheeps Scabious... Scabious Sheepsbit.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 124/2 Sheep's-bit-Scabious. Jasione montana.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > off-white or dirty white
sheep's-colour1551
whey-colour1662
sullied white1681
crash1927
off-white1927
natural1930
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §23 Anye other color..then..watchett shepes color lyon color.
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 60 The kyng beyng in his dublett & hosyn oonly..all of shepes Colour clothe.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture
heafc1525
sheep-gate1535
herdwick1537
fold-course1538
wether gang1561
sheep-walk1586
sheep's course1623
sheep-weald1634
sheep-rake1653
sleighta1697
sheep-leasea1722
sheep-sleighta1722
hirsel1822
sheep-run1826
sheep-heaf1844
shepherd land1892
heft1960
1623 T. Scott High-waies of God 76 Euery Farme, euery trade, euery Sheepes-course is his.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > stay > specific
head ropec1295
fore-stay1373
mainstay1485
sheep's feet1530
forehand1609
backstay1626
jib-stay1752
bobstay1759
breast backstay1769
sciatic stay1794
fore-topgallant-stay1805
funnel-stays1846
belly-stay-
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Schepes fete, pied de movton.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 16 Sheeps feet is a stay in setling a top mast, and a guie in staying the tackles when they are charged with goods.
sheep's fescue n. (also sheep's fescue grass) see fescue n. 4.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > fescue grasses
fescue1762
float-fescue1762
sheep's fescue1762
reed fescue1830
bunch-grass1837
rat's tail fescue1858
capon's-tail grass-
1762 B. Stillingfleet Misc. Tracts (ed. 2) 390 Hills where the purple and sheep's fescue,..and the silver hair grasses abound.
sheep's foot n. (a) the foot of a sheep; †(b) a kind of claw-hammer; (c) sheep's foot roller, a kind of tamping roller consisting of a steel drum studded with projecting feet.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > claw-hammer
clove-hammer1480
claw hammer1622
sheep's foot1683
society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > rammers
stamper1484
wilkin1495
rammer1497
monkey1750
Hercules1794
punner1844
ram1875
boser1930
sheep's foot roller1934
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 71 The Sheeps-Foot is..of Iron, with a Hammer-head at one end, to drive the Ball-Nails into the Ball Stocks, and a Claw at the other end, to draw the Ball-Nails out.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Sheep's-foot Trimmer, a pair of shears or cutting-pinchers to trim the excessive growth of the hoof.
1888 W. T. Brannt Pract. Treat. Animal & Veg. Fats & Oils 266 Sheep's-foot oil is obtained..from the feet of sheep. It resembles neat's-foot oil.
1934 J. H. Bateman Highway Engin. (ed. 2) xiii. 224 Various types of tamping rollers have been developed..and include sheep's-foot and sectional rollers.
1973 G. E. Bertram in Hirschfeld & Poulos Embankment-Dam Engin. 1/1 The recent development of heavy vibratory rollers capable of compacting rockfill has produced the most significant change in placement procedures in the construction of earth and rockfill dams since the introduction of the sheepsfoot roller for the compaction of earthen core materials.
sheep's grey n. material composed of a mixture of black and white wool; also attributive or as adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > of specific colour > multicoloured > black or white
sheep's grey1852
1852 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 3 483 Ten yards or over of sheep's gray cloth.
1877 4th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1876–7 92 The men and boys' garments of the sheep's grey.
1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 462/1 Coarse sheep's gray jacket and trousers.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 13/4 (advt.) Pullover or Cardigan. Colors: Blue Heather, Natural White, Sheeps Grey.
sheep's gut n. (also sheep's guts) = catgut n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > material of
catling1578
catgut1599
sheep's gut1600
tharm1671
tharm-string1787
camel-gut1879
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 58 Is it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of mens bodies? View more context for this quotation
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) Viol d'amour, a viol, or violin, furnished with six brass or steel wires, instead of sheep's-gut.
sheep's heart n. put symbolically for ‘a timid person’.
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the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid
sheep1542
trembler1552
sheep's hearta1616
mouse1839
feartie1923
Nervous Nellie1925
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. i. 407 And this way wil I take vpon mee to wash your Liuer as cleane as a sound sheepes heart . View more context for this quotation
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. ix. 202 I tell thee, man, fear nothing... Why, thou sheep's-heart, how do ye ken but we may can pick up some speerings of your valise?
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd
shepherda1023
sheep's herdc1175
shepc1381
herd-groomc1384
pastorc1400
pastorelc1440
groomc1550
Pan1579
sheepman1591
pastoral1607
sheep-ward1609
feeder1611
sheep-herder1872
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3595 Dauiþþ..ða wass he shepess hirde.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from sheep or goat skin
cheverela1400
sheep's leather1474
maroquin1533
saffian1591
lamb's leather1607
kid-skin1645
basil1674
kid1682
kid-leather1693
morocco leather1695
basan1714
Morocco hide1716
lambskin1725
Morocco1735
skiver1800
chevrette1884
glove-calf1885
Vici1888
Dongola1889
nappa leather1895
castor1897
mocha1909
capeskin1934
glove-sheep-
1474 Cov. Leet Bk. 401 No maner of lether but Shepis lether, Gettes lether.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 56 A headstall of sheepes leather . View more context for this quotation
1694 London Gaz. No. 3000/4 A pair of Sheep Leather Breeches.
sheep's nose n. = sheepnose n. at Compounds 2 above.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > cider apple
genet-moyle1655
eleot1676
stire1699
stirom1708
coccagee1727
sheepnose1817
Slack-ma-girdle1885
sheep's nose1936
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cider apples
ruddock1600
redding1611
stocking-apple1629
Harvey1640
genet-moyle1655
moil1657
winter queening1657
must1662
redstreak1662
redstreak apple1664
eleot1676
peeling1676
Sodom apple1676
stire1699
woodcock1700
underleaf1707
coccagee1727
white sour1727
sheepnose1817
Tom Putt1831
cider-apple1875
Slack-ma-girdle1885
sheep's nose1936
1936 Notes & Queries CLXX. 183/2 Sheep's Nose, an old-time variety of apple whose name is almost forgotten.
1967 Punch 31 May 804/2 Vintage varieties of [cider] apples (with names such as Dabinett, Woodbine, Slack-Ma-Girdle, Hangdown, Sheep's Nose) can be used for no other purpose.
sheep's parsley n. ? hedge parsley.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > hedge-parsley
rough chervil1785
hedge parsley1830
sheep's parsley1896
1896 ‘J. O. Hobbes’ Herb-moon 1 Sheep's-parsley—with its long green stems and white delicate flowers.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > droppings
treddlec1000
treddlingc1440
trittle1526
trickle1598
dribbling1599
trindle1607
sheep's pellet1647
button1684
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. xi. 35) Stretched upon the rack, as a sheeps-pelt is upon a drum-head.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > types of
russeta1450
raploch1535
russetinga1588
sheep's russet1590
hodden grey1725
flannels1888
woolly1899
loden1911
red flannel1940
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C2v I am no Ape Carrier, I pray you defile not my sheeps russet Coate, with your dirtie shoes yet.
1628 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Paules-Crosse i. 23 All..the richest silkes..are as lawfull for vs, as..sheepes-russet.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 263 They were clothed in sheeps-russet . View more context for this quotation
sheep's scabious n. Jasione montana.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun] > sheep's bit scabious
sheep's scabious1578
sheep's bit1796
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiii. 109 The third [kind of scabious] is called in English Sheepes Scabious: in French Scabieuse de brebis.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > mica
glass-stone1601
ice-glass1664
daze1671
glimmer1683
isinglass1750
isinglass-stone1751
marienglas1762
mica1778
sheep's silver1814
1814 Jamieson Illustr. Northern Antiq. 401 The walls and roof, which were..incrusted with sheeps-silver and spar.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > other apples
Bretonc1390
stur1483
marigold apple1577
fritter1591
Margaret1597
critling1611
cat's-head1617
rosiar1620
rose apple1626
snouting1651
roundling1655
mayflower1664
red greening1664
seaming1664
sheep's snout1664
spicing apple1664
violet-apple1664
pomme d'api1676
rathe-ripe1677
rose1678
lady's finger1688
stone apple1736
sops-in-wine1764
stone pippin1769
Manx codlin1818
Rymer1820
Roxbury russet1826
souring1832
genet1833
tompot1836
Wagener1848
flesh and blood1853
pick-thong1871
virgin1886
Jon1931
Idared1942
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Apples..the Seaming Apple, Cushion Apple,..Sheeps-snout.
sheep's sorrel n. Rumex Acetosella.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies > sorrel
sour dockc1325
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
sheep's sorrel1578
Tours sorrel1578
green sauce1620
moonwort1697
ranty-tantya1700
tree sorrel1753
sheep-sorrel1806
sour grass1866
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 60 Take schepis talow [B.M. MS. schepys talwȝ].
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 77 Do þer to þe jus of synygrene and shepes tarowe [read talowe].
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. ix. 558 Sheepes Sorrel loueth dry soyles.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 320 Oxalis tenuifolia. Sheepes Sorrell.
1745 Seasonable Advice Protestants (ed. 2) 18 Nothing now appears but loose Stones and Sheeps Sorrel.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland xi. 242 Among the marshes, I found..both the common and sheep's sorrel (Rumex acetosa and R. acetosella).
sheep's tongue n. (a) the tongue of a sheep used for food; (b) a kind of bugloss.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun]
ribeOE
hound's-tonguec1000
ox-tonguea1325
rotheren tongue?a1350
buglossa1400
dog's tongue?a1425
lungwort1538
anchusa1548
sheep's tongue1552
cowslip of Jerusalem1578
Our Lady's milkwort1578
pulmonaria1578
sage of Jerusalem1578
wild comfrey1578
maiden-lips1589
bugloss cowslip1597
viper's bugloss1597
viper's herb1597
ribbie1607
lithospermon1646
wall bugloss1650
lady's glove1668
Venus's navelwort1678
spotted comfrey1688
cynogloss1705
Jerusalem sage1736
lawn1778
Mertensia1836
stickseed1843
Virginian cowslip1856
bluebell1858
gooseberry fool1858
Jerusalem cowslip1866
borage-wort1882
echium1883
rose noble1886
milksile-
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > other cuts or parts
Jack1466
sheep's tongue1552
leg of mutton1570
porknell1596
nut1611
pope's eye1663
hand1671
mutton chop1696
mutton cutlet1706
wether-gammona1774
wobbler1823
Queen Elizabeth's bone1846
chump1861
skirt1881
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shepes tongue herbe, agniglossa.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. iii. 7 The fifth [kind of Bugloss] is the wilde Buglosse, or Sheepes tongue.
1641 J. Murrell Cookerie (ed. 5) 23 A made dish of Sheepes tongues.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 383/2 Pigs'-tongues, sheep's tongues, calves'-tongues.
sheep's wool n. (a) wool from the fleece of a sheep; (b) a West Indian sponge, Spongia equina, variant gossypina; (c) sheep's-wool fat, lanoline ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1898).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep
wool1495
sheep's wool1721
sheep-wool1851
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > specific types > spongia equina (velvet sponge)
sheep-wool1851
boat sponge1854
wool-sponge1879
velvet sponge1882
sheep's wool1883
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius App. 297 The bodies..wrap'd up..in sheeps-wool.
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 53 The finest quality of American Sponge is the Sheepswool.
1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline viii. 105 Samuel huddled into his threadbare sheep's-wool coat.
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sheep roddin n. Scottish (now rare) a track trodden by sheep; cf. roddin n.
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1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. viii. 134 It is a deep cleuch, wi' a sma' sheep rodding through the linn not a foot wide.
1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches vii I turned Red Rowan off the sheep-rodding.
1993 I. Macleod & P. Cairns Conc. Eng.–Scots Dict. Sheep-track, (sheep) roddin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
sheepv.
local.
1. transitive. To weed or to dung (land) by pasturing sheep upon it.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > dung > by putting animals on land
tathec1440
fold1671
sheep1808
fold-tread1854
1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford 403 Beans..are generally sheeped, as it is termed, or weeded by the folding flock.
1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 i. 136 It [a field] had been sheeped all the summer, but not dunged from the fold.
1898 H. R. Haggard Farmer's Year (1899) 101 The best chance of turning it into a really sound pasture is to sheep it heavily.
2. To eat off with sheep.
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1922 Z. Grey To Last Man i I see no sense in a sheepman goin' out of his way to surround a cattleman an' sheep off his range.
1922 Z. Grey To Last Man iv But what if you throwed your sheep round my range an' sheeped off the grass so my cattle would hev to move or starve?
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