different between shorling vs whorling

shorling

English

Noun

shorling (plural shorlings)

  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
  3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
  4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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whorling

English

Verb

whorling

  1. present participle of whorl

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