Skilling vs Swilling - What's the difference?
skilling | swilling |
A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century. (A subdivision of the Swedish riksdaler, the Danish and Norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler).
A bay of a barn.
* 1844 , James Atkinson, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales
A small addition to a cottage.
As verbs the difference between skilling and swilling
is that skilling is while swilling is .As a noun skilling
is a scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century (a subdivision of the swedish riksdaler, the danish and norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler) or skilling can be a bay of a barn.skilling
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(en noun)See also
*Etymology 3
Compare sheeling.Noun
(en noun)- The barn may be built with lean-to's or skillings all round