What is "sheepcote"

Usage examples of "sheepcote".

We left Sheepcote School, both smiling, and headed further up the dale.

It was given at the Racket Court Inn, in Sheepcote Street, by the Conservative electors of Ladywood Ward, to celebrate Mr.

Bramfell, in a small village known as Sheepcote, so named because its inhabitants worked with either sheep or their by-products.

There was a fresh growth of fruitfulness: more and more cattle-sheds had to be built, sheepcotes had to be created, and manure came in loads and loads to endow the land with wondrous fertility.

Stephen had had almost no contact with Mr Martin, but now his heart warmed to this young man who shared his passion, who had learnt a great deal, and who had paid for his learning with long journeys on foot, nights spent in byres, haystacks, sheepcotes, even prisons when he was taken up for a poacher, and with the loss of an eye, destroyed by an owl.

There was a fresh growth of fruitfulness: more and more cattle-sheds had to be built, sheepcotes had to be created, and manure came in loads and loads to endow the land with wondrous fertility.

At night she exalted in the power of her new form- She flew effortlessly now, gliding for miles, soaring above the frozen fields and the sheepcotes where the woolly muttons huddled, steaming, near me matched cot tages.