Shorling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shorling is a noun meaning (UK, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
Meaning
(UK, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
More Meanings
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.
Example Sentences
a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the buying or shipping of Wools or Wool-fells, Morling or Shorling, by Aliens or Strangers within the Realm
Word Forms
- shorlings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shoreling, shearling, mort, sheeling, shielin, sheiling.
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