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English
Etymology
From sheep + hook.
Noun
sheephook (plural sheephooks)
- crook, a staff used by shepherds
a. 1701, John Dryden, The Fifth Eclogue Daphnis:You then shall for my fake this sheephook keep,
Adorn'd with Brass
1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, published 1899: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.
1894, Alexander Whyte, Samuel Rutherford: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.