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Shilf vs Shilfa - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between shilf and shilfa

is that shilf is straw while shilfa is the chaffinch.

shilf

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) straw
  • * 1849 , The Ecclesiologist: Volume 9 (page 288)
  • Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump
    (Webster 1913)

    shilfa

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) The chaffinch.
  • (Webster 1913)