sheepsheep /ʃiːp/ ●●● S2 W3 noun (plural sheep) [countable] 
a farm animal that is kept for its wool and its meat: 
Sheep were grazing on the hillside. a sheep farmerflock of sheep (=a group of sheep) → lamb12 like sheep if people behave like sheep, they do not think independently, but follow what everyone else does or thinks: Tourists were led around like sheep, from shrine to souvenir shop.3make sheep’s eyes at somebody old-fashioned to look at someone in a way that shows you love them → black sheep, → count sheep at count1(14), → separate the sheep from the goats at separate2(9), → a wolf in sheep’s clothing at wolf1(2)
WORD ORIGINsheep
Origin:
Old English sceapEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a sheep ranch
- He and a Boston friend bought a ranch in Laramie and raised sheep, then steer, on the open range.
- He says that if you hold the sheep properly, it won't struggle.
- Her father left things with her for mending, like a sheep leaves its wool on a fence, in passing.
- The 17, 248 sheep in attendance never got things to eardrum-shattering decibels, which was both unusual and a relief.
- The real problem, they say, is overgrazing by the sheep.
- When we stepped on board we found the boat largely occupied by sheep, always very smelly companions in a steamer.
WORD SETS
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nounskin, nounskunk, nounsloth, nounslug, nounsnail, nounsnake, nounsnakebite, nounsnarl, verbsniffer dog, nounsnout, nounsocial, adjectivesow, nounspaniel, nounspawn, verbspawn, nounsperm whale, nounsponge, nounspoor, nounspore, nounspringbok, nounsquid, nounsquirrel, nounstag, nounstallion, nounstarfish, nounSt Bernard, nounsteed, nounsteer, nounsting, nounstinger, nounstoat, nounstomach, nounstray, adjectivestray, nounstud, nounsucker, nounsuckle, verbsuckling, nounswine, nountadpole, nountail, nountame, adjectivetame, verbtapeworm, nountapir, nounteat, nountentacle, nounterrapin, nounterrier, nounterritorial, adjectiveterritory, nountiger, nountigress, nountoad, nountom, nountomcat, nountooth, nountortoise, nountortoiseshell, nountrumpet, verbtrunk, nountufted, adjectiveturtle, nountusk, nountyrannosaurus, nounudder, nounuterus, nounvampire bat, nounvent, nounvermin, nounvertebrate, nounvicuña, nounviper, nounvivarium, nounvixen, nounvole, nounwag, verbwallaby, nounwallow, 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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Amy’s always been the black sheep of the family. sheep dip
(=a group of sheep)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Amy’s always been the black sheep of the family. sheep dip· A pig farm in Dorset is the suspected source of the epidemic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· I wanted to be the black sheep.· Me, an old bag of black sheep.· Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head.· Families who want to eliminate a black sheep from their photo albums now have a place to go.· Faith is treated as the odd man out, the misfit, the black sheep.· Even in this questionable industry, meanwhile, the Connecticut leasing operation is clearly the black sheep.· Nomatterwhere you are, there are always a few black sheep.· Are twins to become the moral equivalent of black sheep?
· Relentlessly, the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep.· Judy Boone arrived home to find 28 dead sheep pressed against her fence.· In fact it was still alive and had to be destroyed. Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery.· Several of the dead sheep were carried off to the state capital of Villahermosa 30 miles away for examination.· It was a dead sheep, caught on the buttress of the bridge, and its dark-swollen face was fish-nibbled.· The local veterinarian who examined two of the dead sheep says a coyote never kills the way these sheep were killed.· Heather played the pacifist role, pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite.· These dead sheep had only puncture wounds.
NOUN· Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.· Four Peaks is home to black bear, deer, javelina, bighorn sheep, mountain lions and other animals.· Below right A male bighorn sheep with a particularly fine set of horns.· Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.· A male bighorn sheep curls back his upper lip in an attempt to determine the reproductive state of a female close by.· The area is also home to 80 bighorn sheep.· The bighorn sheep, very good to eat, was a logical source of provender in the hill country.
· That sheep dip is singularly disagreeable to a golden eagle is one reason for its rarity.· Perhaps an agricultural supplier was giving them away free with every 200 gallons of sheep dip.· The Fawcetts had a sheep dip and we would take ours there, but the shearing was quite a problem for me.· Symptoms of poisoning by the chemical, which is used in sheep dip, include nausea, headaches and muscle spasms.· An old paint tin, a burst packet of sheep dip.· Mobile sheep dip eases chemical disposal problems.· Previous errors have included a sheep dip targeted after it was mistaken for a surface-to-air missile launch site.
· Tests began at the sheep farm 48 hours ago.· Outside of Tashkent, where Chusovitina grew up, there were sheep farms and ranches.
· His support of the official scientific view that eagles are no threat to the sheep farmer is also worth having.· Like all sheep farmers, Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation ... until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters.· Read in studio A sheep farmer is rearing his biggest ever lamb ... a giant youngster twice the normal weight at birth.· Brussels brings cold comfort to sheep farmers.· Individual identification is out, sheep farmers will be relieved to hear.· She had previously been a pharmacist, a sheep farmer and a student of ecology.· A sheep farmer produces raw wool and sells it to a mill for £10.
· The former manor spread over several parishes, with a particular emphasis on sheep farming backed up by a large wheat crop.· Later he started sheep farming, employing a few of his old workers.· The traditional agricultural land use in the Pentland Hills is sheep farming, mainly of pure bred Blackface flocks.
· The sheep flocks were to have their restrictions lifted immediately.
VERB· His job was to drive some 50-100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts.· Maybe farmers had once driven their sheep up here for the summer grasses.· Sheepdogs are also particularly alert to stray sheep and can easily be taught to drive stray sheep back to the shepherd.· Well I mind the time - I was young then of course - when we'd drive the sheep from Beckwith to Shepton.
· Any unsold can be fed to cattle or sheep.· Alternatively they can be lifted and clamped up to mid-December, and fed to cattle and sheep until the end of February.
· Where the reclaimed tips are not grazed by sheep, plants enter readily.· The field where the outbreak has originated may be grazed by sheep or rested until the following June.· Farmers can use it only to graze sheep, in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring.· Many parks were deer parks, others were grazed by cattle, sheep and horses.· Tam was on all fours, a wood chisel in his hand, apparently sneaking up on a grazing sheep.· Following treatment, lambs should be moved to pasture not grazed by sheep that year, otherwise they will immediately become reinfected.· This part of the Long Mynd, heavily grazed by sheep until recently, is now devoid of them.
· Good in the hedges, too, for keeping cattle and sheep out of planted places.· When John Ainsworth died in 1992, Zona Ainsworth decided to keep the sheep.· Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.· It meant people who kept sheep were happy.· Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep.· The farmers keep sheep on the open moorlands.· Oliffe has already admitted keeping 300 sheep in pens surrounded by broken bottles and barbed wire in Gloucester.
· If they kill the sheep you know what they do to the wolf.· Stop them from killing the sheep.· The local veterinarian who examined two of the dead sheep says a coyote never kills the way these sheep were killed.
· I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep, and he seemed to go into hiding.· He had sold all his sheep and bought a truck, and was trying to convince others that they should follow suit.· He saw in to the future and sold his camels and sheep and bought this land.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► count sheep► I/you might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb► mob of sheep/cattle► separate the sheep from the goats
1- During the 1880s the Scandinavian countries sent an average 106,244 head of cattle to Britain every year.
- He now clears just what he needs to support crops and a few head of cattle.
- Of the nearly 18,000 head of cattle imported through Colombo in 1901, over sixty percent were immediately sent to the slaughterhouse.
- The tribe typically runs about 17, 000 head of cattle on its ranges, but the numbers are dwindling.
- Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle.
- We met one nomad driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun, hours from the nearest village.
- If ever there was a wolf in sheep's clothing this Bill is it.
a farm animal that is kept for its wool and its meat: Sheep were grazing on the hillside. a sheep farmerflock of sheep (=a group of sheep) → lamb12 like sheep if people behave like sheep, they do not think independently, but follow what everyone else does or thinks: Tourists were led around like sheep, from shrine to souvenir shop.3make sheep’s eyes at somebody old-fashioned to look at someone in a way that shows you love them → black sheep, → count sheep at count1(14), → separate the sheep from the goats at separate2(9), → a wolf in sheep’s clothing at wolf1(2)