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Definition of Sheeprun

1. Noun. Farm devoted to raising sheep.

Definition of Sheeprun

1. Noun. (chiefly New Zealand Australia) A sheep farm. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheeprun

Literary usage of Sheeprun

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

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"A dui ness in the wool market, and an increased continental demand for corn at a high price, brought many a sheeprun back under the plough. ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Better at 'the cabbage garden' than sheeprun or cattle paddock." ige - Palm, ;;. same as «rw<i)(qv). ,ge-tree,w. (i)\Tame given us palm trees of which •t of ..."

3. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"... removed to some other cemetery, so that the ground may be built upon, or it may be, as we find it in our own city here, converted into a sheeprun. ..."

4. The English People Overseas by Aubrey Wyatt Tilby (1912)
"The rough labouring man who had emigrated from England and was fortunate enough to obtain a sheeprun might discover that his nearest neighbour was the ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1878)
"... more account than that of the kangaroo, which constituted a the early days formally decided that the lessee of a sheeprun chief part of his daily food. ..."

6. The Record of Technical and Secondary Education (1903)
"quite capable of producing high-class timber employs only one shepherd per 1000 acres if used as a sheeprun ; while all the evidence on this point goes to ..."

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