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单词 sheepcote
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sheepcoten.

/ˈʃiːpkəʊt/
Etymology: < sheep n. + cote n.1
A slight building for sheltering sheep; a sheephouse.
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1414 Rolls of Parl. IV. 60/2 None housynge left stondynge ther on, but gif it were a Shepecote.
14.. Tretyce in W. of Henley's Husb. (1890) 48 Make clene your shepcote.
a1529 J. Skelton Howe Douty Duke of Albany in Wks. (1568) sig. F.viv As it were a gote In ashepe cote.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 49 Wher hath byn many housys & churchys,..now you schal fynd no thyng but schypcotys & stabullys.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 201 To pen them up in a Barn or large Sheep-coat.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 201 The blood-stain'd roost, and sheep-cote spoil'd.
1856 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions (1868) 281 The last are first, the first are last,..These from the sheep-cote sternly cast, Those welcomed to the fold.
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b. Now chiefly in combination, as in dove-cote, hen-cote, sheep-cote, bell-cote (in which cot also occurs); and in more local use, pig-cote, swine-cote, peat-cote, salt-cote, etc., which see.
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