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sheeprun

sheeprun noun: a sheep farm.

Noun

sheeprun (plural sheepruns)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A sheep farm.
    • Over the richest sheepruns in the province of Buenos Ayres you may gallop during every hour of the summer without crossing a single rood of land that is not owned by some son of the Emerald Isle.1900, William Bulfin, Tales of the Pampas, quoted in 2003, Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity, 63
    • It had surprised him when he travelled overland to Adelaide to see from Willunga 30 miles of enclosed and cultivated farms, and it surprised me to see sheepruns close to Melbourne.1910, Catherine Helen Spence, Jeanne Young (posthumous completion), Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography, 2004, page 26

Forms of sheeprun

pluralsheepruns

Origin of sheeprun

From sheep + run (“animal enclosure; place where something can run”).

Questions about sheeprun

What does sheeprun mean?
Sheeprun means a sheep farm.
What part of speech is sheeprun?
Sheeprun is a noun.
What is the plural of sheeprun?
The plural of sheeprun is sheepruns.

Words near sheeprun in the dictionary

  1. sheepness
  2. sheepo
  3. sheepos
  4. sheeppen
  5. sheeppox
  6. sheeprun
  7. sheepruns
  8. sheeps
  9. sheepsfoot
  10. sheepshagger
  11. sheepshaggers

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