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race

nounwork

narrow wooden chute for sorting sheep

A narrow wooden run or chute in a sheep pen that links the main pen to smaller pens, used to channel and sort sheep into individual lots.

Example in use

“Gae sen the ewes intae the race.”

Pronunciation

Say it like this

/RAYSS/

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Origin & context

scotscurrentneutral

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