shielings

As the names declare, these two growing and prosperous towns once consisted of a few fishermen's huts, or "shielings"; but that was long ago, when the north shore of the Tyne was owned by the Prior of Tynemouth, and the southern shore by the

Northumberland Yesterday and To-day 1908

Gold for Prince Charlie - lots of description of Highland shielings and how to keep goats

Archive 2006-10-01 Carla 2006

We passed many miles this day without seeing a house, but only little summer-huts, called shielings.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Gold for Prince Charlie - lots of description of Highland shielings and how to keep goats

Nigel Tranter's historical novels Carla 2006

Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the TIMES rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America.

Ulysses 2003

And so he and Ian-who, it turned out, could also knit and was prostrated by mirth at my lack of knowledge-had taught me the simple basics of knit and purl, explaining, between snorts of derision over my efforts, that in the Highlands all boys were routinely taught to knit, that being a useful occupation well suited to the long idle hours of herding sheep or cattle on the shielings.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Many a brave Highlander would see the lone shielings and the misty mountains of Canada no more.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Their mudcabins and their shielings by the roadside were laid low by the batteringram and the _Times_ rubbed its hands and told the whitelivered Saxons there would soon be as few Irish in Ireland as redskins in America.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

We passed many miles this day without seeing a house, but only little summer-huts, called shielings.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

But she came to the well-builded shielings, {170} and him she found left alone in the shielings with no company, the hero

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878