| 单词 |
sheepcote |
| 释义 |
sheepcote|ˈʃiːpkəʊt| [f. sheep n. + cote n.1] A slight building for sheltering sheep; a sheephouse.
1414Rolls of Parlt. 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. a1529Skelton Howe the douty Duke of Albany, etc. 266 As it were a gote In a shepe cote. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 72 Wher hath byn many housys and churchys,..now you schal fynd no thyng but schypcotys and stabullys. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. 201 To pen them up in a Barn or large Sheep-coat. 1785Burns Winter Night v, The blood⁓stain'd roost, and sheep-cote spoil'd. 1856J. H. Newman Verses on Var. Occas. (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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