What is "sheepwalk"

Usage examples of "sheepwalk".

Among these, Harry Ap-Heather, whose father rented an extensive sheepwalk, and had a thousand she-lambs wandering in the mountains, was the most strenuous in his suit, and the most pathetic in his lamentations for her cruelty.

Here he was just a buffoon come to the city from some sheepwalk nobody in Valles had ever heard of.

His thoughts had flung ahead, out of this sheepwalk country to the glades of Woodstock, where somewhere a ruddy man was breathing his horse and looking doubtfully towards the west.

I proceeded by the path commonly known as the Sheepwalk, which ascends from behind the Lairs and crosses the Down above the excavation of Broadstone Quarry.

There was a good deal of mist and as I went up the Sheepwalk I found almost a fog there.

Australian in the wide expanse of South Down sheepwalks, and in the number of the flocks, to those who have been accustomed to the small sheltered meadows of the vales, where forty or fifty sheep are about the extent of the stock on many farms.

But when old Frank died, which he did when we had not been gone a year, Mrs gave Weston Hay to his eldest boy William and Alton Hill, with all its sheepwalks, to young Frank, the old man's nephew and godson, leaving the other brother, Caleb, with nothing.