Other forms: sheepfolds
A sheepfold is an enclosure where sheep are kept at night. Drive them into the sheepfold, a stone sheepfold, the sheepfold wall.
The stone ones on northern hills are often centuries old and are still used at gathering time. The word is biblical in flavour, since the flock and the fold carry a great deal of religious language with them.
1nounsheepfoldAn enclosure where sheep are kept at night.
“At dusk, the shepherd drove the flock into the sheepfold.”
sheepfold is an enclosure.
Sheep plus fold, from Old English falod, a pen for animals.
Old English
sċēapa falde
Middle English
shepefald
English, today
sheepfold
Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde literally “sheep's fold”, equivalent to sheep + fold.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA