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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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(Schepe-right,) Sheip-, Sheep-right, n. [Repr. ON sauða-rétt a sheep-fold, the second element having been wrongly altered to right by a confusion between rétt, as here, and ON réttr law, legal rights.] An enclosure erected to pen sheep at shearing-time. Also in comb. with time, shearing-time. — 1667 St. A. Baillie Ct. 27 April in H. Marwick The Orkney Norn (1929) 153.
[The bailie] ordaines the sheip rights of Linksness and Yinsta to be put up … and all their sheep to be put in — 1706 Newark Ct. 10 April in Ib.
[Those] having sheep within that Ness of Cirbister [should be admonished] at sheepright time
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