Sheeprun

Quick meaning: Sheeprun is a noun meaning (UK, New Zealand, Australia) A sheep farm.

Meaning

(UK, New Zealand, Australia) A sheep farm.

Example Sentences

The irony was that many of the Scottish Highlanders found themselves manning sheepruns in the antipodes having been eliminated from their own economy by precisely the same forces that had caused the Highland clearances.

When contemporaries complained that the extension of sheepruns left a trail of deserted villages they were commenting on the enclosures of the previous century, but later complaints bear witness to a more profound upheaval.

1978, Juliet Astley (Norah Lofts), Copsi Castle, page 67, Here was she, cancelling her visit to the sheeprun, that part of Sheppey Lea of which she was most proud since it had been reclaimed literally from a waste of near-derelict land, all bracken and gorse and coarse grass.

1910, Catherine Helen Spence, Jeanne Young (posthumous completion), Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography, 2004, page 26, It had surprised him when he travelled overland to Adelaide to see from Willunga 30 miles of enclosed and cultivated farms, and it surprised me to see sheepruns close to Melbourne.

Word Forms

• sheepruns

Synonyms for sheeprun

Depending on context, synonyms include sheepwalk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sheepwalk, station, sheep-run, shieling, sheepshearing, sowm.

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