shiel
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See also: Shiel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Scots
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shiel (plural shiels)
- A shepherd's hut or shieling.
- A cottage.
- 1792, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs:
- 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.
References
[edit]- “shiel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Verb
[edit]shiel (third-person singular simple present shiels, present participle shieling, simple past and past participle shieled)
- (intransitive, agriculture) To use a place as a shieling.
- 2021, David Taylor, Wild Black Region: Badenoch 1750-1800:
- 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.