Definition of Dorper

1. one of a breed of mutton-producing sheep [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorper

dorms
dormy
dorn
dornase
dorneck
dornecks
dornick
dornicks
dornock
dornocks
doromania
doromanias
doronicum
doronicums
dorp
dorper (current term)
dorpers
dorps
dorr
dorred
dorrfly
dorrhawk
dorrhawks
dorring
dorrite
dorrs
dors
dorsa
dorsabdominal
dorsad

Literary usage of Dorper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Constraints on Kenya's Food and Beverage Exports by Michael Schluter (1984)
"The estimates in (6) are based on the performance of dorper sheep at the Naivasha National Animal Husbandry Research Station, and on a flock structure ..."

2. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1883)
"And at 1628 seq. is described the brazen statue of a dorper,1 standing outside ... When he has got past Rodenkirchen with 1 This dorper grot again we are ..."

3. Handlingar (1903)
"... dorper 'Dorfbewohner', originating in Flanders with the introduction of chivalry from France, as a rendering of Fr. vilain* and expressing like the Fr. ..."

4. On Transferred Appellations of Human Beings, Chiefly in English and German by Josef Reinius (1903)
"... dorper 'Dorfbewohner', originating in Flanders with the introduction of chivalry from France, as a rendering of Fr. vilain* and expressing like the Fr. ..."

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