shealing
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Of the first, shiel and shieling are common forms; the second is dialectal; E.D.D. gives shealing as the husk of seeds.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English
Where the great post-road from Genoa to the South passes, a miserable shealing stands, half hidden in tall osiers, and surrounded with a sedgy, swampy soil the foot sinks in at every step.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
"I rarely attempt anything beyond a peasant hut or a shealing."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
And there was Neil Roy Vich Roban, and Callum Dubh, and five or six others little worth, with your leave; and Donald knew not how many more might be in the shealing.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
And as she washed and peeled, she sang an old-time shealing hymn of the Virgin-Shepherdess, of Michael the White, and of Columan the Dove.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
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