Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of removing the shell or husk.
- noun The outer shell, pod, or husk of pease, oats, and the like.
- noun Same as
sheal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Same as
sheeling . - noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
shieling .
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Examples
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One of the men, whom he had sent to reconnoitre, returned in a few minutes, stating, that behind a jutting rock, which he pointed to with his finger, not two hundred yards distant, he had discovered a hut, or what in Ireland is termed a shealing, and that there appeared to be a bridle road from it leading over the mountain.
The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820
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It would not be readily supposed that a road so hopeless and so difficult could lead to any habitation more important than the summer shealing of a shepherd.
The Monastery 2008
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My sister went crazy buying boots, although they did look very nice, and most were only $10 each, They wanted me to buy this three-quarter-length brown shealing coat, but I don't like shealing, and in the end I passed despite their protestations.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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Mackay was benighted on a deer-stalking expedition, near a wild hut or shealing, at the head of Loch Eriboll.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Till the dear shealing ring with the light-lilting chorus! '
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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On leaving the shealing, Flora at first returned to Milton; but, having fully made up her mind to undertake the enterprise, she set out for
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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He replied that it was, and he instantly brought her into the shealing.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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"Fusht, fusht, fallow," cried ane o 'the churls, "nane o' your bourds wi 'us, or ye may like to be the waur aff; where is the faus loon? we saw him gae doun the loaning afore the shealing, and here he maun needs be. "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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He walked in the direction of Benbecula, and about midnight entered a shealing, or hut, which belonged to Angus Macdonald, the brother of his future deliverer.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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The little sodded shealing where we sought shelter rises now on my sight -- your two dogs (old Hector was one) lie at my feet -- the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel' is in my hand, for the first time, to be twice read over after sermon, as it really was -- poetry, nothing but poetry, is our talk, and we are supremely happy.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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