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▪ I. sheel, v. Now dial.|ʃiːl|
Forms: α. 5 schel, 6 scheill, 7 s(c)heele, scheil, 7–9 sheal, 8–9 shiel, 9 sheil, 8– sheel; β. 5 schylle 6 shyll, 6– shill.
[Related to shale n.1; the early history is obscure.
The α forms possibly repr. OE. *scielian (in áscylian ‘enucleare’), f. scealu shale n.1 The β forms, exc. in the northern examples, perh. belong to a distinct though synonymous word, a derivative of shell n.]
trans. To shell; to take off the husk or outer covering of. Hence sheeled ppl. a.
α1473Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 182 Payand..ix chalder of vitale of the kyngis met, half beir half meil, the meil twise schelit. 1508,1583–4[implied in sheeling vbl. n.]. 1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 219 That's a sheal'd Pescod. 1615G. Sandys Trav. ii. (1637) 116 Rosetta..perhaps deriued of Ros, which signifieth Rice, and so named for the abundance that it vttereth; (they here shealing monethly three hundred quarters). 1612in Trans. Cumb. & Westm. Archæol. Soc. (N.S.) III. (1893) 155 That the Milner..doe neither sheele nor grinde any Skillinge of any Mans dwelling in another Lordshipp. 1681Ibid. 159 Noe Tennant or Farmer..Shall grinde or Scheele any Wheate, Bigg, Barley, Pease..att any other Mill. 1709Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (S.H.S.) 79, 10 stone twist shield meall. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 457 After sheeling, the seed should be well cleansed from bad seeds. 1801Farmer's Mag. Apr. 214 It was first shealed on the barley mill. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf xvii, We took their swords and pistols as easily as ye wad shiel peacods. a1824G. Beattie John o' Arnha' etc. (1826) 83 She mussels sheel'd, an' wan her bread. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 105 Barley was shealed by pounding the grains with water in the hollow of a stone until by that means the husks were rubbed off. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 101 He would need to be twice sheeled and ance grund that deals wi' you.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 446/1 Schyllyn owte, of coddys, exsi(li)quo. Schyllyn, or schylle notys, enuclio. Ibid. 446/2 Schyllyn oysterys, and thyngys closyd yn schellys, excortico. 1483Cath. Angl. 336/1 Schylled pyse.., pise exilique. 1508in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1510, 747/1, 4 bollas..albe et bone farrine vulgariter nuncupat. twise schillit mele. c1522Skelton Why nat to Court? 108 Or pescoddes they may shyll. 1702Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (S.H.S.) 66 For Shild pies..2 peck out of 5 p. 1703Thoresby in Ray Philos. Lett. (1718) 336 To Shill, as Pease to take them out of the Swads. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 163 When the barley is twice shilled, i.e. put twice through the mill, on purpose to take off the rind more compleatly, and then grinded small. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds Gloss. s.v. Shill, ‘Shillin' peis’; ‘shillin' beins’—unshelling peas and beans.
▪ II. sheel(l, sheeld(e
see shiel, shield. |