Definitions for shealings

shealings sheal·ing

Spelling: [shee-ling]
IPA: /ˈʃi lɪŋ/

Shealings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 504 anagrams from letters in shealings (aeghilnss).

Definitions for shealings

noun

  1. shieling.
  2. a pasture or grazing ground.
  3. a shepherd's or herdsman's hut or rough shelter on or near a grazing ground.

Origin of shealings

First recorded in 1560-70; shiel + -ing1

Examples for shealings

She must leave Maam at the latest to-morrow night without being observed, and he must show her the way to Elasaid's shealing.

And without a word more they proceeded towards the shealing that was to be the end of their adventure.

The young man could not approach the shealing from either side without being seen.

In the shealing, she felt sure, there was not only counsel, but concealment if occasion demanded that.

Scale, possibly connected with shealing, is a Scandinavian word used in the north for a shepherd's hut, hence the surname Scales.

The shealing at the foot of Hungry mountain, he mentioned to Herbert as the rendezvous for the present.

I rarely attempt anything beyond a peasant hut or a shealing.

He replied that it was, and he instantly brought her into the shealing.

We have found out a better site for a settlement than our present encampment, and Gerald and I mean to build a shealing.

Searching the braes he could hear, after a little, Nan sing at the shealing hut.

Word Value for shealings
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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