"shep" meaning in English

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      "form": "sheps",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "shep (plural sheps)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "ship"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright",
          "text": "Git on board a shep there, an' go off to some furrin country and make a fortin.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Pronunciation spelling of ship."
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          "ship",
          "ship#English"
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        "alt-of",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lancashire English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Starlings",
          "orig": "en:Starlings",
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            "Perching birds",
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
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      "glosses": [
        "starling"
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          "starling"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Lancashire) starling"
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shep"
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    "en:Starlings"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sheps",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright",
          "text": "Git on board a shep there, an' go off to some furrin country and make a fortin.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of ship."
      ],
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          "ship",
          "ship#English"
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    },
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        "Lancashire English"
      ],
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        "starling"
      ],
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          "starling"
        ]
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        "(Lancashire) starling"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛp"
    }
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  "word": "shep"
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