单词 | sheep-house |
释义 | sheep-housen. Now rare. A covered pen for the housing of sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-house sheepcot14.. sheep-housec1410 sheepcote1414 sheppey1869 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 105/12 Ouile, sceapahus.] c1410 MS Douce 335 f. 72b Ony house, that ony beest vseth out or go oute at.., that is to say swynhouse, nethous, shephous. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 670/29 Hec barcaria, schepehouse. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xx. sig. F1v A shepe howse and .ij. or .iij. shepardys. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 141 I haue seene some sheepe houses so framed, as they haue had theyr gates toward the South, and towarde the East. 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. F1 Sheapheard swaines to sheephouse driues their sheep. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 100 Where you cannot fold Sheep, to have a Sheep-house to feed them in. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 71 The whole have hay..in the sheep-house, on wet..nights. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 63 Och, it's only a wee bit of a sheephouse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1410 |
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