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shirrel Sc. (Common in the 16th c.)|ˈʃɪrəl|
Forms: 6 scherald, -et(t, -att, -ard, cheritt, scheirritt, 8 shirrel, 9 shirrot, shurral.
[In 16th c. scherald, ? f. scher- shear v., to cut. (The final -ld developed divergently into l and t.)]
A turf.
1513Douglas æneis viii. iii. 190 And he hym self the Troiane men fut het On sonkis of gresy scheraldis hes doun set. 1554–5Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 360 Item, for scheratts and devatts ixs. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 336 The fluir laid witht greine cherittis [v.r. scheirrittis]. 1597in Spalding Club Misc. (1841) I. 143 Thow..keist a grene truff or scherard, and laid the new calffit calff theirvpon. 1755R. Forbes Ajax, Jrnl. to Portsmouth 29 Our..coach-man turned o'er our gallant cart amon a heap o' shirrels, an' peat-mow. Ibid. 50 Shirrels, turf. 1808Jamieson, Shirrot, a turf or divot, Banffs. 1826D. Anderson Poems (ed. 2) 9 (E.D.D.) Hardly a shurral Even to rest a fire. |