Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the rude cots in which shepherds on the moor meet at the end of the pasturing season, to tell or count their sheep.
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Examples
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My father never came to meet us, at either side of the telling-house, neither at the crooked post, nor even at home-linhay although the dogs kept such a noise that he must have heard us.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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If you please, we must get home to-night; and father will be waiting for me this side of the telling-house. '
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My father never came to meet us, at either side of the telling-house, neither at the crooked post, nor even at home-linhay although the dogs kept such a noise that he must have heard us.
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'Vayther'll be at the crooked post, tother zide o' telling-house.
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If you please, we must get home to-night; and father will be waiting for me this side of the telling-house.’
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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