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shearling|ˈʃɪəlɪŋ|
Forms: 4, 6 scherling, 5, 7 sherling, 6 sharling, scharlyng, shyrlyng, 8 sheerling, 9 shearling.
[f. shear v. + -ling.]
1. A sheep that has been once shorn.
1378–9Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 587 In 30 pell. de Scherlings empt. de Celer. pro pistrina, 5s. 1532–3Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 207 Oves..vocatæ sharlyngs. 1786Culley Live Stock (1807) Introd. p. xx, They are not called shearlings until once clipped, which is understood to be the same as one year old. 1833Wauldby Farm Rep. 114 in Libr. Usef. Kn., Husb. III, Making up the number by an addition of the finest gimmer shearlings. 1877Blackmore Erema lii, I am whiter than yonder shearling.
2. The fleece of such a sheep. In recent use, spec. the woollen lining or body of a coat, etc. (chiefly U.S.).
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 117, xxij. dousen of scherlinges, and iij. skynnes, prise the dousen xx. d. 1531–2Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 109 Pelles vocati sharlyngs. 1597Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 119 Of the glover, for viij shyrlynges, which was kylled before October last, ixs iiijd. 1680in Ferguson & Manson Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887) 220 Lamb skins sherlings calfe-skins. 1971New Yorker 16 Oct. 143/2 (Advt.), Suede on the outside, the white shearling on the inside. 1977L. O'Donnell Aftershock (1979) ii. 31 She shrugged out of her shearling-lined coat and hung it on the rack.
3. attrib., as shearling-ewe, shearling-ram, shearling-tup, shearling-wether.
1861Times 27 Sept., Regular ram-breeders..let *shearling rams by private contract.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 38 A dinmont or *shearling-tup.
1782W. H. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 321 Several pens of *sheerling-wedders. |