What does sheephook mean?
Sheephook means crook, a staff used by shepherds.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
crook, a staff used by shepherds.
You then shall for my fake this sheephook keep, Adorn'd with Brass[…]
O'er both their marks it flew; till fiercely flung From Polypoetes' arm the discus sung: Far as a swain his whirling sheephook throws, That distant falls among the grazing cows, So past them all the rapid circle flies: His friends, while loud applauses shake the skies, With force conjoin'd heave off the weighty prize.
For the shepherd of that unhappy sheepfold also had climbed up some other way before he knew how to hold a sheephook, till, week after week, the hungry sheep looked up and were not fed.
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Sheephook means crook, a staff used by shepherds.
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You then shall for my fake this sheephook keep, Adorn'd with Brass[…]
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