Definitions for shieling

shieling shiel·ing

Spelling: [shee-ling]
IPA: /ˈʃi lɪŋ/

Shieling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in shieling (eghiilns).

Definitions for shieling

noun

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

Origin of shieling

First recorded in 1560-70; shiel + -ing1

Examples for shieling

Three women mysteriously glided into the shieling, and the dancing began in earnest.

The shieling among the crags, which had been his home so long, was a roofless ruin now.

Among his love-poems the “shieling Song” is deservedly famous.

There was no house known to them nearer than the shieling at Lowtherslacks, about two miles distant.

There is but one human creature in that shieling, but he is not at all solitary.

A corruption, probably from carn, a cairn; aridh, a shieling.

Scarce a half mile from us a shieling was to be seen on the shoulder of the mount.

Then he'll ask, "Whereabouts is your sheepcote and shieling?"

There are a few sheep, a shepherd, and so there must be a shieling.

Yet the shieling is inhabited, and has been so by the same person for a good many years.

Word Value for shieling
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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