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English
Noun
shorling (plural shorlings)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
a. 1480, a statute, (Please provide the book title or journal name):a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the buying or shipping of Wools or Wool-fells, Morling or Shorling, by Aliens or Strangers within the Realm
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, by extension, derogatory) A priest.
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