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Stone sheep

noun

  1. a wild sheep found in the Yukon and the northern Rocky Mountains
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Stone sheep1

C19: after the US naturalist Andrew Jackson Stone, who first discovered the breed in 1896
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Example Sentences

Consequently he raced furiously at his stone sheep, flourishing a cudgel, crying the shepherd calls.

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