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Word entry · 5 letters

sheep

Best crossword clue

"Animal with wool"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃiːp/Part of speech nounSorted eehpsStarts with SEnds with P5 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą, of unknown origin.

Used in a sentence

  • There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
  • 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace. And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask the sheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?

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Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues

01Animal with wool5 letters
02Flock animal5 letters
03Wool-bearing animal5 letters
04Woolly farm animal5 letters
05Woolly farm animals5 letters

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