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sheepcot

sheepcot is the alternative form of sheepcote.

Meaning of sheepcote

Noun

sheepcote (plural sheepcotes)

  1. A small building for sheltering sheep.
    • If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare.1594, Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd

Forms of sheepcot

pluralsheepcots

Questions about sheepcot

What is sheepcot the alternative form of?
Sheepcot is the alternative form of sheepcote.

Words near sheepcot in the dictionary

  1. sheepberry
  2. sheepbiter
  3. sheepbiters
  4. Sheepbridge
  5. sheepbush
  6. sheepcot
  7. sheepcote
  8. sheepcotes
  9. sheepcots
  10. sheepdip
  11. sheepdips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheepcot (page history and authors); sheepcote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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