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Shorting vs Shorling - What's the difference?

shorting | shorling |

As a verb shorting

is .

As a noun shorling is

(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.

shorting

English

Verb

(head)

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    shorling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • (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.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)