sheep creep
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sheep creep
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From sheep + creep.
noun sheep creeps
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A small, low opening built into the base of a drystone wall or farm boundary; it allows sheep and lambs to pass freely between fields while blocking larger livestock like cows.
Hares are also snared and trapped. I used to know an old man in whose blood the poaching instinct ran so strongly that, though reduced almost to ineptitude by age and infirmity, he would persist in trying to trap hares in “sheep creeps” (holes in stone walls to let sheep through from one field to an
Similar: cattle creep, cripple hole, smoot hole, smoot
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