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sheal

sheal noun: a shell or pod.

Noun (1)

sheal (plural sheals)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A shell or pod.

Noun (2)

sheal (plural sheals)

  1. A shieling

Verb

sheal (third-person singular simple present sheals, present participle shealing, simple past and past participle shealed)

  1. To shell (remove husks, shells etc)
    • That's a shealed peascod.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. To shelter under a shieling

Forms of sheal

Noun
pluralsheals
Verb
third-person singular presentsheals
present participleshealing
past participleshealed
pastshealed

Origin of sheal

Variant of shiel, from Middle English schelen, schyllen, from Old English sċylian, sċilian. Akin to Old English scealu (“shell, husk”). See also shell.

See shieling

Questions about sheal

What does sheal mean?
Sheal means a shell or pod.
What part of speech is sheal?
Sheal can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of sheal?
The plural of sheal is sheals.

Words near sheal in the dictionary

  1. sheafs
  2. sheafwise
  3. sheafy
  4. Sheahan
  5. Sheahans
  6. sheal
  7. shealed
  8. Shealey
  9. Shealeys
  10. shealing
  11. shealings

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