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shevelled, ppl. a. rare and arch.|ˈʃɛvəld| Also 7 sheualed, shieveld. [Aphetic form of dishevelled ppl. a.] Dishevelled. Also transf.
1613Uncasing of Machiav. 22 While the poore man..May..wipe his blubbered cheeks with sheualed heares. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 5. 592 A shieveld threed is hardly got thorow the needles-eye. 1877Blackmore Erema I. xviii. 219 He bowed his tall white head into my shevelled hair. 1886― Springhaven (1887) I. x. 81 Sandhills shevelled with long rush disarm the western fury. |