sheepcote

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   chiefly British or historical: a pen or small shelter for sheep

   The shepherd secured the lambs inside the sheepcote before nightfall.

From sheep + cote. Cote, from Middle English and Old English, denoted a hut or shelter for domestic animals. Sheepcote is recorded from the fifteenth century; sheepcot is a less common variant with the final silent e omitted.

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