单词 | shieling |
释义 | shielingn. Scottish. 1. A piece of pasture to which cattle may be driven for grazing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > summer pasture shiel1532 shieling1568 summering1605 shiel-town1606 setterc1772 summer lease1794 1568 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1575 628/1 Lie schaelingis, in baroniis de Drumcardny et Bewfort. 1590 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 611/1 Cum communi pasturagio lie scheilding infra lie Glen de Glengorf. 1594 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 48/1 Lie outseattis et scheallingis. 1596 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 132/1 Cum communiae et communi pastura ac lie schilling in Glenalmond consueta. 1602 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 481/1 Cum..lacubus, lie scheillingis, montibus [etc.]. 1691 in Further Evid. Nairne Peerage (1874) 138 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. D) XII. 199 Shellings grasings woods pasturages. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Kildonan The district..has been twice inundated by water-spouts, one of which carried off a whole shealing, with the family and cattle. 1843 Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 59 (note) A shiel or shieling is..a summer pasturage for flocks. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 62 Opposite to this, on a place called Ruidh Reinnich, or the ‘ferny shieling’, a fire was kindled. 2. A hut of rough construction erected on or near such a piece of pasture: = shiel n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > hut near pasture shielinga1585 a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 201 In stoir of lambes and lang taillit wedders..In scheilling, tyit fast in tedderis. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 806 Little cottages here and there, which they call Sheales and Shealings. 1673 Rec. Dingwall Presbyteries (S.H.S.) 330 [The] Popishe Dishaunters were not cited in reguard that they were dwelling at their sheallings, and therefore [etc.]. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. i. (1774) 109 We refreshed ourselves with some goats' whey, at a Sheelin. 1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 1 Sept. 1773, 156 Little summer-huts, called shielings. c1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 100 So merrily we'll sing, As the storm rattles o'er us, 'Till the dear sheeling ring Wi' the light lilting chorus. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 124 Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose x, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 217 Montrose..was laid down to sleep in a miserable shieling. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 163 The lassies used to live in sheilings. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxiv. 405 Lonely sheilings perched far up on the hills. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xlii. 298 It seemed a hundred miles to the shieling on the hill. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1607 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 710/1 Scheilinge-plaices. 1639 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 322/1 Sitting or eating of the scheilling grasse. 1849 J. G. Whittier Kathleen 19 And nightly round the shealing-fires Of her the gleeman sung. 1884 Spectator 17 May 642 The shealing feast is a very simple one, each housewife producing a cheese of last year's produce. 1901 Scotsman 12 Nov. 8/2 Little has been recorded of shieling life in historical books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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