sheading
/ˈʃiːdɪŋ
/noun
Each of the six administrative divisions of the Isle of Man.The need of this division, according to Young, was to give three parishes to each of the newly formed southern sheadings in the 14th Century....
- As well as sheadings, the island was sectioned into 17 parishes, each having a patron saint from which it got its name.
- For hundreds of years, the Isle of Man has been divided into six sheadings, which in turn were subdivided into seventeen parishes.
Origin
Late 16th century: variant of shedding (see shed2).
Rhymes
- Chuquisaca
- church
- church ale
- Church and King
- Church and Kingism
- church-and-king man
- Church and King Mob
- churchanity
- Church Army
- church assembly
- church bell
- church book
- church box
- church bug
- church building
- church camp
- church catechism
- church-Catholic
- church censure
- church censurer
- church choir
- church clerk
- church cloth
- church clothes
- church coffer