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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of shield.
  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of shold for shoal.
  • Spotted; variegated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective UK, dialect variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald

Etymologies

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Old English, from sheld a shield, probably in allusion to the ornamentation of shields. See shield.

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