shorling

English

Noun

shorling (plural shorlings)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, 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, dialectal, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
  3. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
  4. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shorling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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