Shearling vs Shealing - What's the difference?
shearling | shealing |
A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
* {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
, passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
(chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
As nouns the difference between shearling and shealing
is that shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time while shealing is an alternative spelling of lang=en.shearling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her coat was lined with shearling.