Sheephook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sheephook is a noun meaning crook, a staff used by shepherds.
Meaning
crook, a staff used by shepherds.
Example Sentences
You then shall for my fake this sheephook keep, Adorn'd with Brass[…]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- sheephooks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pedum, crook, cammock, hook, filch, sheepshank.
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