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单词 shirrel
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shirreln.

Brit. /ˈʃɪrəl/, U.S. /ˈʃɪrəl/, Scottish English /ˈʃɪrəl/
Forms: 1500s scherald, scheret(t, scheratt, scherard, cheritt, scheirritt, 1700s shirrel, 1800s shirrot, shurral.
Etymology: In 16th cent. scherald , ? < scher- shear v., to cut. (The final -ld developed divergently into l and t.)
Scottish. (Common in the 16th cent.)
A turf.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iii. 190 And he hym self the Troiane men fut het On sonkis of gresy scheraldis hes doun set.
1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 360 Item, for scheratts and devatts ixs.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 336 The fluir laid witht greine cherittis [v.r. scheirrittis].
1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 143 Thow..keist a grene truff or scherard, and laid the new calffit calff theirvpon.
1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 Our..coach-man turned o'er our gallant cart amon a heap o' shirrels, an' peat-mow.
1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) Gloss. Shirrels, turf.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Shirrot, a turf or divot, Banffs.
1826 D. Anderson Poems in Sc. Dial. 9 Hardly a shurral even to rest a fire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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