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skillion Austral. and N.Z.|ˈskɪljən|
Also 9 skilion.
[Alteration of skillin skilling n.1]
1. A lean-to, serving as a shed or as a small room.
1843C. Rowcroft Tales of Colonies I. vii. 120 At the back of the long room of twenty feet, a skillion, to serve as a kitchen, &c. 1864E. A. Murray Ella Norman I. 163 This led into a ‘skillion’, or shed built against the house. 1870Honey Glaucus i. i. 5 The farm..together with the three Skillions at the end of the Retreat are..his property. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms 12 The harness-cask, which stood in a little back skillion.
attrib.1866Mrs. N. Chevalier Reminisc. Journey 23 The house consisted of a front room..a skillion kitchen with big fire, and one end of this skillion had a kind of shed. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Australian Life 73 A verandah, and a skillion room opening off it.
2. (See quot. 1933.) Now Hist.
1846C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austral. 39 Skillions formed by a sloping verandah to receive the sheep in from the fold as required. 1863S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settlement x. 158 The wool-shed..[has] a large central space, and an aisle-like partition on each side..for holding the sheep at night... In a wool-shed, the aisles would be called skilions. 1871M. A. Broome Christmas Cake in Four Quarters iv. iii. 279 There was the skillions standing empty, and the shearers lounging about idling when Christmas Day came. 1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 2 Dec. 15/7 Skillion. In old Australian and New Zealand books (up to about 1880) it is common and means the sheep-holding part of a wool⁓shed.
3. Special Comb. skillion roof, a roof sloping from the side of a building; hence skillion-roofed a.
1911J. Nangle Australian Building Practice 171 Lean-to Roof. This kind (sometimes called a *Skillion Roof)..is generally used only in rear buildings, or verandahs where no ceilings are required. 1977N.Z. Jrnl. Science XIX. 312 A skillion roof and other thin roof forms.
1967J. Morrison in Coast to Coast 1965–66 136 It was little more than a *skillion-roofed shack. |