sheep-stealv.
intransitive. To be a sheep-stealer.
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sheep-steala1822
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xlix, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 311 Those Who swindle, house-break, sheep-steal, and shop-lift.
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