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Shelter vs Sheepcote - What's the difference?

shelter | sheepcote |

As nouns the difference between shelter and sheepcote

is that shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something while sheepcote is (archaic) a small building for sheltering sheep.

As a verb shelter

is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
  • An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

    • Derived terms

    * bus shelter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  • * Dryden
    • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  • * Southey
    • You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
  • To take cover.
    • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

    sheepcote

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A small building for sheltering sheep.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Richard Barnfield, title=The Affectionate Shepherd, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If thou wilt come and dwell with me at home, My sheepcote shall be strowed with new greene rushes: Weele haunt the trembling prickets as they rome About the fields, along the hauthorne bushes; I have a pie-bald curre to hunt the hare, So we will live with daintie forrest fare. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1845, author=Mrs. Thomson, title=Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Each officer was at his post, nor could they much complain whilst their General sat on straw, in a sheepcote , at the foot of the hill, called Sherriff Muir, which overlooks Dumblane, on the right of his army. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Alexander Maclaren, title=The Life of David, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Besides this, he acquired in the sheepcote lessons which he practised on the throne, that rule means service, and that the shepherd of men holds his office in order that he may protect and guide. }}

    See also

    * sheepfold