A pen in which recently mustered sheep are held until they have cooled down enough for shearing.
between the sweating pen and the wool-sorters are the shearers
Example sentencesExamples
- Penelope stood with arms folded watching a young native boy catch a bleating sheep out of a catching pen and shove it through a drop gate into a sweating pen.
- Sheep were crowded into a sweating pen the night before shearing.
- Another night something frightened them in the sweating-pen, and they piled upon each other and many were smothered.
- Each sheep farm has a shearing point which comprises a sweating pen and a shearer.
- Sheep manure should not be allowed to accumulate under the sweating pens, as so commonly occurs.