sheephouse

English

Etymology

From sheep +‎ house.

Noun

sheephouse (plural sheephouses)

1. (agriculture) A roofed enclosure for sheep.
   • 1800, Transactions of the Dublin Society, page 198:

     The sheep are afterwards driven into an unpastured adjoining meadow, and remain there (to prevent their soiling themselves in the sheephouse) a day and night, […]