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Shipling vs Shieling - What's the difference?

shipling | shieling |

As nouns the difference between shipling and shieling

is that shipling is (diminutive) a small or miniature ship; a boat while shieling is an area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.

shipling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (diminutive) A small or miniature ship; a boat.

    • shieling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shealing * sheeling

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, p. 182:
    • The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling , and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.
  • A shepherd's hut or shack.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 39:
    • Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.

    Quotations

    * (shealing)

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