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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a sheep, Ovis canadensis, found in the western mountains.
See: Rocky Mountain sheep
Quotations
1822
We learn on the authority of a gentleman who has traversed the Rocky Mountains from the north branch of the Columbia to the Athapescow that numerous flocks of these sheep inhabit that region.
1957
Yet a crew of men . . . had replaced the original habitants of this waste, the sheep and goat, and were boring straight down through the stone spires of the continent to its underlying pool of oil.