shiel
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Definition of shiel
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A shepherd's hut or shieling.
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noun
- A shepherd's hut or shieling.
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A cottage.
“The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.”
verb
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(intransitive)To use a place as a shieling.
“Patrick Robertson, who shieled on the Atholl side of Drumochter, confirmed this practice: his cattle 'continued there till about midsummer, when they were brought down to his farm, having continued there about three weeks, and were then sent back to the shealing.”
name
- (countable, uncountable)A surname.
- (countable, uncountable)A short river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows from Loch Shiel to Loch Moidart.
- (countable, uncountable)A river in Glen Shiel, further north in Highland council area.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English schele. Akin to Old Frisian skiāle (“stable”) and Old Norse skjōl (“shelter”). See also sheal.
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