dorset horn

dorset horn
\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ noun also dorset
Etymology: from the county of Dorset, England
1. usually capitalized D&H : an English breed of sheep with very large and in the ram much-coiled horns that has a close-textured fleece of medium-length wool and that has been much used for hothouse lamb production because of the early breeding of the ewes and the high percentage of twin lambs
2. -s often capitalized D&H : a sheep of the Dorset Horn breed

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one of an English breed of sheep having a close-textured, medium-length wool.
[1890-95; after DORSET]

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Dor|set1 «DR siht», noun.
an arctic Eskimo culture, believed to have flourished until approximately 1000 A.D.
╂[< Cape Dorset, Greenland, where it was first identified]
Dor|set2 «DR siht», noun, or Dorset Horn,
any one of an English breed of sheep having large horns and wool of medium length. Dorsets produce lambs at any season of the year. They are raised chiefly for their meat along the Atlantic coast.
╂[< Dorset(shire), a county in England]

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