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(Schepe-hous,) S(c)heip(is)-hous, n. Also: sheep- and -house. [Late ME and e.m.E. shephous (1410), OE (once, in a gloss) sceapa-hus.] A covered pen for housing sheep.(1) 1596 Dalr. I 98/9.
Thair castelis and palices ar scheiphouses and luges [L. casæ et tuguria] quhilkes thay commonlie cal pailes 1626 Dumfries Test. Ia 92.
The byre and the scheip hous 1642 Rothesay B. Rec. 956.
The croaft quherupone rid Roberts scheip hous stood 1662 Lanark B. Rec. 188.
The calsay … from the port to the sheiphous to be calsayit of new 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 241.
[Vagabonds] having … brocken up the doores … of … byres, stables, sheiphouses and other office houses 1696 T. Davidson Rowan Tree (1949) 267.
Sheep-house(2) 1609 Dundonald Par. Rec. 185.
Robert Thomsoun … bigis his scheipis hous on the Saboth
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