Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sheep of the first year's shearing; a shearling; a newly shorn sheep.
  • noun See the quotation.
  • noun A shaveling: a contemptuous name for a monk or priest.

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

  • noun Prov. Eng. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
  • noun obsolete A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.

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

  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete A sheep of the first year's shearing.
  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory A priest.

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