sheepfold

[ sheep-fohld ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. an enclosure for sheep.

sheepfold

/ ˈʃiːpˌfəʊld /

noun

1. a pen or enclosure for sheep

Word History and Origins

Origin of sheepfold¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceapa falda. See sheep, fold ²

Example Sentences

The tour is free but donation jars will be set out at the gardens to support the Sheepfold, a crisis center for women and children in Orange that has long been the beneficiary of the foundation’s annual tours.

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The tour is free but donation jars will be set out at the gardens to support the Sheepfold, a crisis center for women and children in Orange that has long been the beneficiary of the foundation’s annual tours.

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The tour is free but donation jars will be set out at the gardens to support the Sheepfold, a crisis center for women and children in Orange that has long been the beneficiary of the foundation’s annual tours.

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The tour is free but donation jars will be set out at the gardens to support the Sheepfold, a crisis center for women and children in Orange that has long been the beneficiary of the foundation’s annual tours.

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Heard started the tours in 1994 to help support the Sheepfold crisis center for women, McInteer said, and when she closed her nursery in 2002, shortly before she died from cancer, the Mary Lou Heard Foundation continued her work.

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