shealing
Americannoun
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He went awkwardly off the customary track so that he might reach the shealing the quicker by a short cut that led through boggy grass.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
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 Charles James Lever
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
Remember the shealing at the foot of the mountain.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
On their arrival at the sea-range of hills, the explosion of the shealing, and subsequent conflict between the parties, met their eyes.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
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