shepherd's-check

Updated: May 5, 2025

In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd's-check muffler was attached. "'By Jove! cried my client. 'That's Brunton's muffler. I have seen it on him, and could swear to it. What has the villain been doing here?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes