Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sheaf .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sheeling .
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Examples
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(To save trouble, let it be stated that the sheil is a dependency of the Home Farm, and not contrasted with or opposed to it.)
General. 1908
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Lol very funny i espically like the sheil orphans at least she does a good deed twixie
Top 5 Things Kristen Stewart Does With Her Lips | Manolith 2010
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Mellanauir, and took the Prince about two miles further into Benalder, to a little sheil called Uiskchibra, where the hut or bothie was superlatively bad and smoky; yet His Royal Highness put up with everything.
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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The rain descended javelin-like upon us as we struggled through the heavy peat-hags; we lost our bearings and determined to make for any light that we might descry in lonely farm or shepherd's sheil on this forsaken waste.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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The sheil of Ravensnuik was, for the present at least, at his disposal; the foreman or 'grieve' at the Home Farm was anxious to be friendly.
General. 1908
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The sheil of Ravensnuik was, for the present at least, at his disposal.
General. 1908
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TTie Drsninga sheil be without delay exhibited to the Society; and your Memoir, explanatory of them, lead.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812
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