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
   • Each officer was at his post, nor could they much complain whilst their General sat on straw, in a sheepcote, at the foot of the hill, called Sherriff Muir, which overlooks Dumblane, on the right of his army.1845, Mrs. Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.