English to Afrikaans Meaning of sheepfold - skaapstal

Sheepfold :

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Definitions of sheepfold in English

Noun(1) a pen for sheep

Examples of sheepfold in English

(1) In the fourth millennium BC it was divided into two sections by means of a wall, the outer section being used as a sheepfold and the inner as a living area.(2) The problem was timorous shepherds who failed to protect the flock, and especially the lambs, fearing to confront the wolves admitted to the sheepfold .(3) He knew the fields and the woods, the wild creatures and the birds; he knew how to plough and to reap; he could keep an allotment full of vegetables all the year round; he understood a stable and a dairy, a paddock and sheepfold .(4) The dogs were sympathetic to this proposal, so the wolves, making their way inside the sheepfold , tore the dogs to pieces.(5) In particular, they believed that the time was ripe for the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy: soon there would be ‘one sheepfold and one shepherd’.(6) The viewing platform resembles a raised circular sheepfold and is surmounted by a weathervane depicting a front-load tractor.(7) Within the northern compound is a rectangular structure, probably a post-medieval sheepfold .(8) After covering twice the required distance on the first day, we decided to cheat a bit and inquired at a remote farmhouse about purchasing food and spending the night in the sheepfold .(9) The notion is that of sheep being gathered into the sheepfold .(10) Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold , and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm.(11) One is a cracked mud floor made from local earth, another a stone sheepfold bisected by the museum's French doors, half of it indoors and half in the open air.(12) Jesus told the people that whoever entered the sheepfold by any route other than the gate was a thief.(13) At a sheepfold the track loses its companion walls and stone surface and diminishes to a narrow path with railway sleepers over the numerous spring fed rivulets.(14) I am merely a sheep, wishing to return to the sheepfold .(15) Everyday features of the countryside from sheepfolds to packhorse bridges carry all kinds of fascinating clues about how man's activities have shaped the Lake District landscape.(16) No, what is required is something contemporary, a song that at least emerged from the confusion of modern, urban Scotland, that sings of the streets rather than the rivers and sheepfolds .

Related Phrases of sheepfold

(1) sheepfold ::

skaapstal

(2) sheep ::

skape

Related Phrases of sheepfold

(1) sheepfold ::

skaapstal

(2) sheep ::

skape

Synonyms

Noun

1. sheep pen ::

skaapkraal

2. sheepcote ::

weiveld

3. fold ::

vou

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