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English
Noun
sheeps
- (nonstandard, usually humorous) plural of sheep
- (obsolete) genitive of sheep
1631, Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , paragraph 595, page 145, →OCLC:THe firſt and moſt Ordinary Helpe is Stercoration. The Sheeps-Dung is one of the beſt; And next, the Dung of Kine: And thirdly, that of Horſes: […]
1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Description of Syam”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, , London: William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 196:[T]heir came tovvards me one of theſe ſeemingly deuout Abdals, in his ſheeps skin & horne about his necke and bare-footed, eſpying me, hee bleſt himſelfe and ſuddenly began to mutter his prayer to Mahomet vvith feruent ardencie, […]
1684, Robert Boyle, “An Essay on the Porousness of Animal Bodies. Chapter III.”, in Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, London: Sam Smith , →OCLC, pages 10–11:[T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], […] are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhevvn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then vvringing it hard to force it out; […]
Quiripi
Etymology
From English sheeps.
Noun
sheeps
- (Unquachog) a sheep
References
- Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)