shut in
verb- To confine. · We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape.
- To completely surround or enclose.
- To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)
- To stop pumping oil from a site, ending production.
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The herds are shut in byre and hut
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