Definitions for shielings

shielings shiel·ing

Spelling: [shee-ling]
IPA: /ˈʃi lɪŋ/

Shielings 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 210 anagrams from letters in shielings (eghiilnss).

Definitions for shielings

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 shielings

First recorded in 1560-70; shiel + -ing1

Examples for shielings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for shielings
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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