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sheephouses

sheephouses is the plural of sheephouse.

Meaning of sheephouse

Noun

sheephouse (plural sheephouses)

  1. A roofed enclosure for sheep.
    • The sheep are afterwards driven into an unpastured adjoining meadow, and remain there (to prevent their soiling themselves in the sheephouse) a day and night, […]1800, Transactions of the Dublin Society, page 198

Questions about sheephouses

What is sheephouses the plural of?
Sheephouses is the plural of sheephouse.

Words near sheephouses in the dictionary

  1. sheepherding
  2. sheephood
  3. sheephook
  4. sheephooks
  5. sheephouse
  6. sheephouses
  7. sheepier
  8. sheepies
  9. sheepiest
  10. sheepily
  11. sheepiness

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