English

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Etymology

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sheep +‎ house

Noun

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sheephouse (plural sheephouses)

  1. (agriculture) A roofed enclosure for sheep.
    • 1800, Transactions of the Dublin Society, page 198:
      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, [...]