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Sheld vs Sheild - What's the difference?

sheld | sheild |

As an adjective sheld

is (uk|dialect) variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

As a noun sheild is

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sheld

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald

    • Derived terms

    * shelduck (Webster 1913)

    sheild

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1686 , author=Aristotle , title=Aristotle’s Rhetoric citation , page=177 , passage=For if a Beaker may be call’d the ?heild' of ''Bacchus''?; a '''?heild may be al?o call’d the Beaker of ''Mars .}}