Definitions for sheep-dip

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Spelling: [sheep-dip]
IPA: /ˈʃipˌdɪp/

Sheep-Dip is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in sheep-dip (-deehipps).

Definitions for sheep-dip

noun

  1. a lotion or wash applied to the fleece or skin of sheep to kill vermin, usually applied by immersing the animals in vats.

Origin of sheep-dip

First recorded in 1860-65

Examples for sheep-dip

By itself, railroad coffee is too passive; but sheep-dip makes it wake up and get down to business.

Not improbably this sheep-dip was what Flo meant as the worst to come.

And they went by train with the bailiff from the farm, who was going in about some sheep-dip and to buy pigs.

A large tub was filled with hot water, and a bottle of sheep-dip was emptied into it.

Whereupon Carley felt mount in her breast an intense and rebellious determination to see a sheep-dip.

Flo was dusty and hot, and her chaps carried the unmistakable scent of sheep-dip.

Yet she was nonetheless set upon going on, and seeing the sheep-dip, and riding that fiendish mustang until the trip was ended.

They dab a splotch of sheep-dip on the place and go right ahead.

And the station-business doesn't pay for the sheep-dip to sanctify their coffee with.

Say, Glenn, do you reckon Miss Carley could stand a sheep-dip?

Word Value for sheep-dip
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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