Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sheep of the first year's shearing; a shearling; a newly shorn sheep.
- noun See the quotation.
- noun A shaveling: a contemptuous name for a monk or priest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the
morling , or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. - noun obsolete A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect, obsolete The
skin of asheep after thefleece is shorn off, as distinct from themorling , or skin taken from the dead sheep. - noun UK, dialect, obsolete A sheep of the first year's shearing.
- noun UK, dialect, obsolete A person who is shorn; a
shaveling . - noun UK, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory A
priest .
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