Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a breed of hornless sheep with thick crimped wool, originally raised in the Cheviot Hills.
- noun A woolen fabric with a coarse twill weave, used chiefly for suits and overcoats and originally made from the wool of this breed of sheep.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheep of a breed so called from the Cheviot Hills, between England and Scotland.
- noun [lowercase] A loosely woven woolen cloth made from the wool of the Cheviot sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
- noun A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CHEVIOT - When Susan Kraus crashed her car Tuesday, she was drunk, drinking a 12-ounce beer and had her twin 10-year-old daughters in her car, Cheviot police said.
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CHEVIOT - When Susan Kraus crashed her car Tuesday, she was drunk, drinking a 12-ounce beer and had her twin 10-year-old daughters in her car, Cheviot police said.
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After six years of examination, the fate of Cheviot is still unknown.
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I was a founder member of the Scottish company 7:84, and in 1973 we made a show called The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, about the effects of the discovery of North Sea oil on Highland life.
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Neal expressed surprise that, after all these years, the Fieldhouse - which also goes by the name Cheviot Memorial Building - "made the register.
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The Cheviot is a mountain sheep, and, as might be expected, its flesh is well flavored.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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The Cheviot is a small-boned sheep, and well covered with wool to the hough; the only defect in this breed, is in a want of depth in the chest.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The Cheviot is a small-boned sheep, and well covered with wool to the hough; the only defect in this breed, is in a want of depth in the chest.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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After a couple of hours of pastoral scenery, we stopped at a little town called Cheviot for tea and a "comfort" stop as the guide put it.
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The name "Cheviot" is said to mean "Snowy Ridge" and well does this highest summit of the range merit the name, for on its marshy top and in the rocky chasms of Henhole and Bazzle, the winter's snow often lies until far into the summer.
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