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Definition of Sheepwalks
1. sheepwalk [n] - See also: sheepwalk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepwalks
Literary usage of Sheepwalks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Thought on Agricultural and Land Economics by the English by Samuel Jacob Brandenburg (1922)
"... for he raises the question whether want of capital for improvement "doth not
drive men unto the lazy vray of employing land under sheepwalks. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... that certain individual freeholders were exclusively entitled to the herbage
of different specific sheepwalks, which they claimed as appurtenant to ..."
3. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1900)
"... sheepwalks." general title of the plaintiff as tenant, ('2) 14 RH 546, ...
"The farms and sheepwalks : and that the admission" to " received iu evidence ..."
4. A Treatise on the Industry of Nations, Or, The Principles of National by Joseph Salway Eisdell (1839)
"... reversed the order of nature, ploughing up our meadow grounds and leaving our
arable lands under grass, converting our vineyards into sheepwalks and our ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1853)
"... property consisted of a house, some enclosed land, and a tract of unenclosed
mountain land forming sheepwalks. Elizabeth Davies, the lessee of ..."
6. Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events which Have by Thomas Fordyce (1876)
"For lot 4—the estate known as sheepwalks, with Butsfield allotments, consisting
together of 431 acres, together with the farm-house and onstead and three ..."
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