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Definition of shieling in English: shieling(also shealing) noun ˈʃiːlɪŋˈʃilɪŋ Scottish 1A roughly constructed hut used while pasturing animals. Example sentencesExamples - In the glen are ancient, horn-shaped stone remains, which were probably used as summer shielings.
- Of the old shielings that once graced the banks of the river here only the rocks remain.
- There they lived in settlements of temporary huts called in Ireland booleys (Irish ‘buaile’, ‘cattle-pound’) and in Scotland ‘shielings’, where they made butter and cheese and other dairy products such as ‘bonnyclabber’ or soured milk.
- A faint path leads to an old shieling on the hillside, a soft sanctuary that gazes up the length of fjord - like Loch Hourn to where it becomes choked off by tumbling mountain slopes.
- Before the modern paraphernalia, an old woman used to spend her summers at a shieling close to the summit.
- 1.1 An area of pasture.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Scots shiel 'hut' (of unknown origin) + -ing1. Rhymes appealing, ceiling, Darjeeling, dealing, feeling, Keeling, peeling, revealing, self-sealing, wheeler-dealing, wheeling Definition of shieling in US English: shieling(also shealing) nounˈSHēliNGˈʃilɪŋ Scottish 1A roughly constructed hut used while pasturing animals. Example sentencesExamples - A faint path leads to an old shieling on the hillside, a soft sanctuary that gazes up the length of fjord - like Loch Hourn to where it becomes choked off by tumbling mountain slopes.
- Of the old shielings that once graced the banks of the river here only the rocks remain.
- In the glen are ancient, horn-shaped stone remains, which were probably used as summer shielings.
- There they lived in settlements of temporary huts called in Ireland booleys (Irish ‘buaile’, ‘cattle-pound’) and in Scotland ‘shielings’, where they made butter and cheese and other dairy products such as ‘bonnyclabber’ or soured milk.
- Before the modern paraphernalia, an old woman used to spend her summers at a shieling close to the summit.
- 1.1 An area of pasture.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Scots shiel ‘hut’ (of unknown origin) + -ing. |