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sheepcotes

sheepcotes is the plural 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

Questions about sheepcotes

What is sheepcotes the plural of?
Sheepcotes is the plural of sheepcote.

Words near sheepcotes in the dictionary

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

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