shiel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shiel
1250–1300; Middle English schele; compare Old Norse skāli hut, shed; akin to Old English scȳr hut, Old High German scūr, Old Norse skūrr penthouse
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“I’ll shiel a’ your sheep i’ the mornin’ sune,57 I’ll berry your crap by the licht o’ the moon, An’ ba the bairns wi’ an unkenn’d tune, If ye’ll keep puir Aiken-drum.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
Appears as i in the N. Sco. word shiel.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
The Queen's house or shiel of the Glassalt stands near the head of the two miles long loch, just beyond the point where the Glassalt burn comes leaping and dashing down the hillside.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler
The simmer shiel I 'll build for thee Alang the bonnie banks o' Dee, Half circlin' roun' my father's ha', Amang the braes o' Gallowa'.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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
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