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Webster 1913 Edition

Shorling

Shor′ling

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Noun.
1.
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.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Shorling

SHOR'LING

, In England, the skin of a living sheep shorn, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from a dead sheep. Hence in some parts of England, a shorling is a sheep shorn, and a morling is one that dies.

Definition 2024

shorling

shorling

English

Noun

shorling ‎(plural shorlings)

  1. (Britain, 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.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
  3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
  4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.
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