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sheep dip
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Definition:a liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide which shepherds and farmers use to protect their sheep from infestation against external parasites such as itch mite (Psoroptes ovis), blow-fly, ticks and lice.[...]text from Wikpedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
photo: Gooreen collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3531129
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So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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An open shearing shed and a stone dipping trough stood next to the sheep pen.
Robert Jordon. The Eye of the World (1990)
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