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Shorling
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [Obs.] Halliwell.