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shoreling

shoreling is the alternative form of shorling.

Meaning of shorling

Noun

shorling (plural shorlings)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
    • a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the buying or shipping of Wools or Wool-fells, Morling or Shorling, by Aliens or Strangers within the Realma. 1480, a statute, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A sheep of the first year's shearing.
  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
  4. (UK, broadly, derogatory, dialectal, obsolete) A priest.

Forms of shoreling

pluralshorelings

Questions about shoreling

What is shoreling the alternative form of?
Shoreling is the alternative form of shorling.

Words near shoreling in the dictionary

  1. shorelessness
  2. shorelike
  3. shoreline
  4. shorelined
  5. shorelines
  6. shoreling
  7. shorelings
  8. shoreman
  9. shoremen
  10. shorepound
  11. shorepounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoreling (page history and authors); shorling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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