Definition:Number Names/Numbering of Sheep

Definition
There are a number of traditional system of numbers used for counting sheep in certain locales in the British Isles.

This is one example:

and so on.

Prime.mover remembers a song learned at school in which the chorus ran:
 * Yain tain eddero peddero, yain tain eddero jig

which was built from another such system.

The children's nursery rhyme:


 * Hickory dickory dock
 * The mouse ran up the clock
 * The clock struck one
 * The mouse ran down
 * Hickory dickory dock

appears to use versions of the shepherds' words for $8$, $9$, $10$ as its first and last lines.

Again, the children's counting game:


 * Eeny meeny miny mo
 * Catch a [ethnic minority] by his toe
 * If he squeals let him go
 * Eeny meeny miny mo

appears to use the shepherds' numbers for $1$, $2$, $3$ and $4$.