shiel

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English

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Etymology

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Probably from Scots

Pronunciation

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Noun

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shiel (plural shiels)

  1. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
  2. 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.

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Verb

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shiel (third-person singular simple present shiels, present participle shieling, simple past and past participle shieled)

  1. (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.

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