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shieling
English
Alternative forms
- shealing
- sheeling
Etymology
From Scots shiel (“hut”) (from Old Norse skjól (“shelter, cover”)) +? -ing.. Akin to Danish skjul (“cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?l??/
Noun
shieling (plural shielings)
- An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
- 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 182:
- The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling, and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.
- 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 182:
- A shepherd's hut or shack.
- 1836 Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1
- And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers,
And all the shieling herdsmen from Bengorach,
Must have a lair provided for the night.
- And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers,
- 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 39:
- Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.
- 1836 Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shealing.
References
Anagrams
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spieling
English
Verb
spieling
- present participle of spiel
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