Word Meanings - SHEEPHOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.

• Sheepshank
  A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
• Shepherdly
  Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
• Sheepback
  A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
• Sheepshead
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
• Sheepberry
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• Sheep-shearer
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Sheepbite
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Sheepbiter
  One who practices petty thefts.
• Sheepskin
  The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
• CROOKESSPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

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