shieling

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Rain drives you into a shieling--and you sit there for an hour or two in eloquent confabulation with the herdsman, your English against his Gaelic.

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  • John Telford's cottage was little better than a shieling, consisting of four mud walls, spanned by a thatched roof. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
  • There is but one human creature in that shieling, but he is not at all solitary. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • Nay, it sometimes stands rebuked before it--and the lowly dweller in the hut, or the shieling on the mountain-side, or in the forest, could abash the proudest son of Science, by pointing to the Sermon of our Saviour on the Mount--and saying, "I see my duties to man and God here_!" —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • Rain drives you into a shieling--and you sit there for an hour or two in eloquent confabulation with the herdsman, your English against his Gaelic. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • This is a secluded vale, called Killean, which, besides its natural attractions--and these are many--is distinguished as one of the few places where the old practice of resorting to the 'shieling' for summer grazing of cattle is still observed. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
 

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  1. From Scots shiel, hut, from Middle English schele, possibly from Old English *scēla, probably of Scandinavian origin; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/ˈʃilɪŋ/
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